From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 20:45:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83a6lpfb20.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y29cj65y.fsf@posteo.net> <87czqna77n.fsf@dick> <878s1ba1nl.fsf@dick> <4324d238-261f-946d-eb6b-a98bea3a1157@gmail.com> <83eeb2h7v4.fsf@gnu.org> <024825b3-fa33-a852-5115-1ee56ae47041@gmail.com> <83zgtpfqqx.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17816"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 10 19:46:39 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mDVpn-0004Jy-Bg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:46:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45930 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDVpl-0006t3-6o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49458) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDVom-00064A-IG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDVol-00088d-1B; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4475 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDVok-0005kT-Bw; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:45:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:22:47 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272296 Archived-At: > From: Arthur Miller > Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:22:47 +0200 > > > What is your problem with compressed *.el files? When Emacs visits > > such a file, it uncompresses it, so you see the original source. And > > yet people keep mentioning the .gz extension as if it were a huge > > problem. What am I missing? > It takes time, at least on my computer. There is a noticable delay, > where everything freezes for a small amount of time, but it is like a > sudden break. You can always install without compressing. > I also don't see the point of running make install every time after I > pulled and rebuild emacs, when I can equally well run it from src > folder. Then don't install. This whole discussion was for people who do, for one reason or another.