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: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:55:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83zjwy4zxe.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83txn76cj0.fsf@gnu.org> <4ACDB1853730452BA136101AAAA5B3D1@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366102559 30221 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2013 08:55:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 16 10:56:02 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 1US1gE-0002JY-Km for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:55:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US1gE-0005TH-Ad for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:55:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US1g7-0005S4-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:55:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US1g4-0007tB-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:47027) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US1g4-0007sh-HK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MLC00500BBP4K00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:55:46 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MLC0033XBGX0QL0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:55:46 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4ACDB1853730452BA136101AAAA5B3D1@us.oracle.com> 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:158942 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: > 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.