Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:24:55 -0500
> 
>   > No.  I mean that bytecomp.el would generate a file in a format which
>   > pdumper can use (which has various consequences, such as the fact that
>   > .elc files aren't portable any more).
> 
> That seems like a big disadvantage to me.  This could be sufficient
> reason just by itself to stick with the current format for elc files.
> People expect to install one elc file and have it work in multple
> Emacs versions.

That's true, but note that Guile produces non-portable byte-compiled
files since long ago.  The Guile developers did that on purpose and
they think it's TRT.  I was at least initially surprised when I
learned about that.