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Subject: Re: `gzip` dependency (was: [feature/dll-only-windows] A new windows
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:52:07 -0500
> 
> > The gzip thing is again your call (having gzip in the package is no
> > big deal, IMO).
> 
> 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.

Did we completely replaced jka-compr in Emacs?