Re: Add a configure option for NATIVE_FULL_AOT?

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Wed, Aug 18 2021, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Aug 18 2021, Arthur Miller wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I picking on it, I know that most of distributions do so, but
>> that is unfortunate practice against the nature of Emacs as application,
>> since Emacs comes with sources as fully modifiable and extendable
>> editor.
>
> Nothing prevents you from reading and modifying the lisp files.

I don't want to add anything which hasn't been said by others already,
but just point out that the way that emacs is packaged in debian is
actually pretty nice and convenient for many users, especially in a
multi-tenant setup.

I'm actually aware of several friends that have emacs installed without
the emacs-el package at all (which, to clarify, contains the actual
elisp source files - not just the bytecompiled ones) and are perfectly
happy about that. They are not fluent in elisp, so they treat those (as
well as most of the configuration) as a black-box. I even did so myself
for many years early on.

I definitely see the same concept being extended to AOT and being a net
advantage in such cases.