On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:15:07 +0100 joa...@verona.se wrote: > Just a small reminder of the idea Stefan sometimes drops in these > discussions: > - Emacs "trunk" could be stripped of all but the bare essentials to > achieve bootstrap. > - distribution tarballs could be made from trunk+elpa.
> Since I dont do releases for Emacs I dont get to have an opinion on the > matter, but if pressed, I would say this idea has considerable merit. Sounds fine to me, because my Internet connection is very slow (especially to Savannah). It is often a pain for me to perform a `bzr pull', since it takes a long time. And there is also another way: Add a command line argument named `--slim', it can invoke Emacs with only the bare-minimum Emacs Lisp libraries needed for quick editing. -- Best regards, Xue Fuqiao. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao
