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Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

>> Then I think you are optimzing for the uncommon case. For a non-beta
>> user the packages have much more frequent updates.

Will they?  I see a lot of postings with Gnus 5.3 ...

My perception of the major problem of upgrading is one of dropping in
a new XEmacs without breaking existing site code.  Please correct me
if I'm wrong.

> The problem with this is that, to redump you need to keep temacs
> around. This will cost you (gzipped) about 1 MB...

temacs will be included in the next round of the binary kits (it
should have been included last time, but we didn't get around to it).

> Secondly it might gives you problems with PURESIZE (does this NEED to
> be a compiletime constant?.

Yes.  It delimits a static C array.

I'm far from done upgrading the startup sequence.  I expect to be
able to provide a facility where the user can add directories to the
load-path and have those added directories searched for autoloads.
Similarly, I'd like autoloads removed for directories deleted from
the load-path.

