From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 18:31:22 +0200 Message-ID: <21831.40666.491742.170889@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430757122 11927 80.91.229.3 (4 May 2015 16:32:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 16:32:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 18:31:53 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YpJHd-0003Ad-Bg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 18:31:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35167 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpJHc-0001C1-F6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 12:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpJHR-0001Bv-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 12:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpJHL-0006Gf-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 12:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:39293) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpJHL-0006Ex-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 12:31:35 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id t44GVN4h018085 for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 18:31:23 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id t44GVN1I014206; Mon, 4 May 2015 18:31:23 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id t44GVM4w014202; Mon, 4 May 2015 18:31:22 +0200 X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186191 Archived-At: Some packages in ELPA have sizes around 5 MB, so I wonder why they can only be downloaded as uncompressed tarballs? Everything that is necessary to handle compressed files should already be there in Emacs. Ulrich