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: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests! Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:46:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqt84vyh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mwu9l6ju.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87obeog70m.fsf@yandex.ru> <87ip4wpjtw.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363355208 8615 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2013 13:46:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:46:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dan@haxney.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 15 14:47:07 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 1UGUyQ-0004xJ-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:47:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59864 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGUy3-0002jN-3J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:46:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGUxw-0002iX-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:46:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGUxs-0007e1-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:45978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGUxs-0007du-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:46:32 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MJP00B00FIBAO00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:46:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MJP00A21FLFMXL0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:46:27 +0200 (IST) 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:157888 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:56:44 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Of course, another option is to be evil: > - if there's gunzip, use it. > - if we're on Windows, download a prebuilt gunzip executable from GNU > ELPA (presumably we do have network access since in all likelyhood we > just downloaded the targz). > - if we're not on Windows and there's no gunzip, give up in disgust. Before the disgust, and actually even before fetching gunzip from ELPA, I would suggest to probe for bsdtar executable, which can unpack any archive known to humanity without invoking any external programs. It is part of the libarchive package. A Windows port is available (I use it all the time), so this is a good alternative for Windows as well.