Re: make check-exec-image failure

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

Hi Bruno,

> * Bruno Haible <oe...@py...t> [2017-03-13 20:30:47 +0100]:
>
>> > <<There is now a general move away from "pack everything into one file"
>> >   to "create separate file for different purposes"...>>
>> ...
>> 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.
>
> Our time is better invested in working on '(make-distribution)'
> than on '(saveinitmem :executable t)'.

Yep, I imagine a bunch of make-distrib-<platform>.lisp files,
and something like this in init.lisp:

#+win32 (load "make-distrib-win32")
#+macos (load "make-distrib-macos")
...
#-(or win32 macos ...)
(defun make-distrib (name)
  (saveinitmem name :executable t))


:-)


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