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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:50:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831uaa6eqm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvobdfbm25.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:34 -0400
> 
> > 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".

If it's still "no", then the precompiled binaries will have to be
distributed uncompressed.

The question about the "make install" default still stands, though.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-16  8:50 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
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 [this message]
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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