Subject: bug#33005: 27.0.50; Data loss with Gnus registry

From: Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 08:46:51 -0700

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> > Would it make sense to change the default of gnus-mock-emacs-program to
>> > something like (expand-file-name "src/emacs" source-directory) or
>> > similar?
>>
>> Yes, that would probably work. But it still make assumptions about how
>> the user is working on emacs. Probably I should just default the option
>> to nil and ask users to always set it explicitly.
>
> Wouldn't that be the worst default since people are expected to use
> emacs -Q to start gnus-mock?

People are expected to use `gnus-mock-start' to start it, which does
"emacs -Q" internally. The only requirement is that the emacs be run
from a build directory, and not an installation.