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: `gzip` dependency Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:22:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83ft37fqgj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pn2dq3xv.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ft39hnk1.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7nppzjy.fsf@russet.org.uk> <838s90hhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh1gircl.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83turofw8r.fsf@gnu.org> <83pn2cf8zq.fsf@gnu.org> <87bldv7pz3.fsf@russet.org.uk> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22729"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 11 16:24:43 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 1kyz3i-0005nn-Ew for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:24:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40396 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyz3h-0007lD-IA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:24:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyz1l-00051o-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyz1l-0004T4-62; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2031 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kyz1k-0003qu-G0; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:22:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bldv7pz3.fsf@russet.org.uk> (message from Phillip Lord on Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:00:32 +0000) 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:262913 Archived-At: > From: Phillip Lord > Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:00:32 +0000 > > >> BTW, we don't really need a `gzip` executable as long as we have the > >> `zlib-decompress-region` function, right? > > > > Not necessarily, because Info files can be read outside Emacs. > > This is not an issue for the Windows package of Emacs, as far as I can tell. Emacs installs Info files that can be used outside of Emacs. So I think it could be an issue for Emacs.