From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:55:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zjwy4zxe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ACDB1853730452BA136101AAAA5B3D1@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:13:14 -0700
>
> And even if they have gzip, some users will likely want to unzip all of the .el
> so that they can more easily grep etc.
How is this different from users on Posix platforms?
In any case, uncompressing all of the files is easy on any platform
that has gzip installed.
> Is the gain from compression worth making them go through that extra
> step?
I don't know the answer to that. I asked this question (and stated
the disk space savings) to hear opinions. Hearing questions instead
of answers doesn't really help ;-)
> Even though Emacs is bigger now than in the past, I would think that size
> (download & disk) is generally less of a problem nowadays than it used to be.
Indeed. But still on Posix platforms, compression is the default for
some reasons, although these same considerations clearly apply there
as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-16 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-15 15:26 Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-15 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-15 20:13 ` Drew Adams
2013-04-16 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-04-16 13:23 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-08 13:02 ` Steinar Bang
2013-04-16 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-16 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 8:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-16 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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