From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:50:41 +0300 Message-ID: <831uaa6eqm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83txn76cj0.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366102235 26540 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2013 08:50:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:50:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 16 10:50:39 2013 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 1US1b4-0003x0-S3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:50:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US1b4-0002j1-HG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US1b1-0002in-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US1ay-0005up-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:45155) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US1ay-0005uf-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:50:32 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MLC00400B2KZ400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:50:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MLC004TEB85O830@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:50:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:158941 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > 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.