From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed?
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 15:31:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21832.50724.538350.789451@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871tiv5fs9.fsf@tromey.com>
>>>>> On Tue, 05 May 2015, Tom Tromey wrote:
> When I wrote package.el, one goal was that installing a package
> would not require any external tool. So, e.g., that is why I chose
> tar archives and not some other format -- tar-mode.el can unpack
> them without a helper.
>> From NEWS I see that zlib was added in 24. So, that's the reason --
> at the time it wasn't available. It sounds like it is optional,
> though, which seems like a problem for users.
As was previously remarked, gzip could be used if Emacs isn't linked
against zlib. And I wonder if there are still any systems nowadays
where neither gzip nor zlib isn't readily available.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-05 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 16:31 Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? Ulrich Mueller
2015-05-04 16:56 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 19:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-04 19:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 13:12 ` Tom Tromey
2015-05-05 13:31 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2015-05-05 14:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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