From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:13:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACDB1853730452BA136101AAAA5B3D1@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvobdfbm25.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > A related issue is whether the precompiled Windows binaries
> > should be distributed with these files compressed. If they are
> > compressed, end users will need to have 'gzip' installed to
> > be able to use them.
>
> AFAIK that's the main issue. Can we expect the vast majority of
> Emacs-on-Windows users to have gzip installed?
> AFAIK the working hypothesis until now was "no".
And even if they have gzip, some users will likely want to unzip all of the .el
so that they can more easily grep etc. Is the gain from compression worth
making them go through that extra step?
Even though Emacs is bigger now than in the past, I would think that size
(download & disk) is generally less of a problem nowadays than it used to be.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-15 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-15 15:26 Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-15 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-15 20:13 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-04-16 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 13:23 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-08 13:02 ` Steinar Bang
2013-04-16 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-16 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 8:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-16 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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