Olivier Galibert has written a portable dumper for XEmacs, based on
initial work by Kyle Jones. Normally, XEmacs C sources link into an
executable called `temacs', which loads the Lisp code and "unexecs"
Olivier Galibert has written a portable dumper for XEmacs, based on
initial work by Kyle Jones. Normally, XEmacs C sources link into an
executable called `temacs', which loads the Lisp code and "unexecs"
-into a proper `xemacs' executable. The unexec() process is unreliable
-and makes XEmacs hard to port to new operating systems, or even to new
-releases of old systems.
+into a proper `xemacs' executable. The unexec() process is hard to
+implement correctly and makes XEmacs very hard to port to new
+operating systems, or even to new releases of old systems.
A portable dumper is a different approach to dumping: instead of
dumping full-fledged executable, it only dumps out the initialized
A portable dumper is a different approach to dumping: instead of
dumping full-fledged executable, it only dumps out the initialized
buttons, scrollbars, combo boxes, edit fields and progress gauges in a
buffer. As a side effect subwindow support now works once again.
buttons, scrollbars, combo boxes, edit fields and progress gauges in a
buffer. As a side effect subwindow support now works once again.
-All of this is still very experimental. This support is currently
-only available under MS-Windows. (#### Is this true?)
+All of this is still very experimental. This feature is currently
+more complete under MS-Windows.
** user-init-directory is now an absolute, unexpanded path.
Previously, `user-init-directory' used to be relative to
** user-init-directory is now an absolute, unexpanded path.
Previously, `user-init-directory' used to be relative to
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