Re: make check-exec-image failure

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Hi Bruno,

> * Bruno Haible <oe...@py...t> [2017-03-13 09:41:35 +0100]:
>
>> > So, when users ask for a "single executable" option, tell them that this
>> > option would buy them nothing.
>> 
> <<There is now a general move away from "pack everything into one file"
>   to "create separate file for different purposes"...>>

This is true for skilled vendors distributing well-polished packages to
many users.

This is not true for someone like me who threw together a quick hack to
be run by my wife. It is much easier for me to email her an executable
image which she will copy to her desktop and click to run than create a
tgz which she has to unpack, install &c &c.

The only alternative to `(saveinitmem :executable t)` is
`(make-distribution)` which will create an executable installer.

Until we have it, we should support executable images.

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