From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:18:18 +0900 Message-ID: <87fvyq51o5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <83txn76cj0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366100324 5837 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2013 08:18:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 16 10:18:46 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 1US16E-0004la-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:18:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US16D-0007Ct-E4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:18:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US16A-0007Cm-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US164-0001WX-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:59553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US15z-0001To-M3; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:18:31 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9A8970928; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:18:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4F1E11A4BE7; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:18:18 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <83txn76cj0.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:158940 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > If the 'gzip' program is available, the Posix installation procedure > ("make install") by default compresses [stuff]. Are there any > reasons not to do the same when Emacs is installed on MS-Windows? Wouldn't the sensible thing to do on Windows be to use zip, which in some form seems to always be available? While it doesn't directly address Drew's gripe that it's a PITA for the user who wants to grep, it does make it easier to undo the operation since there's only one zipfile for the elisp and one for the info. Many programs will now treat a zipfile as a filesystem mounted at the zipfile's path, as well. Dunno if grep or Emacs can do that, but apparently it's a pretty standard thing (especially on Windows, where Explorer has treated a zipfile as a directory rather than an archive since Windows XP I think).