Re: Replace 'pp' with 'prin1' to generate ELPA archive-contents

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> I have tried out a few different compression algorithms on the archive
>> contents generated with `prin1', and it seems that bz2 would give the
>> best results -- though in the end there is just a difference of ±2kb:
>
> The main benefit of using gzip is that it's more portable, as it's
> almost always installed on any given system.  Given the small file
> sizes, that consideration is probably more important than the exact
> compression ratio.

Yes, right.

>> Another thing I just thought of is that HTTP can serve gzip'ed
>> content, but unless I am mistaken the elpa.gnu.org server doesn't make
>> use of this capability, even though url.el appears to send the right
>> header (Accept-Encoding: gzip).  My guess would be that enabling this
>> would improve the situation immediately more than any hacking on
>> elpa-admin.el/package.el.
>
> Makes sense.  Did you check what melpa.org does about that, BTW?

I hadn't previously, but they appear to do so.