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: Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 15:31:16 +0200 Message-ID: <21832.50724.538350.789451@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <21831.40666.491742.170889@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <871tiv5fs9.fsf@tromey.com> 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 1430832717 30779 80.91.229.3 (5 May 2015 13:31:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 13:31:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 15:31:48 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 1Ypcwm-0004dB-Tu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 15:31:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ypcwh-0008Kj-3K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 09:31:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpcwU-0008Ke-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 09:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpcwR-0000l6-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 09:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:50601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpcwR-0000ku-1r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 09:31:19 -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 t45DVHj5010212; Tue, 5 May 2015 15:31:17 +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 t45DVHUE028802; Tue, 5 May 2015 15:31:17 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id t45DVG3A028798; Tue, 5 May 2015 15:31:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <871tiv5fs9.fsf@tromey.com> 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:186230 Archived-At: >>>>> 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