From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests!
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:11:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hakecha8.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20130314T051456-867@post.gmane.org
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Daniel Hackney <dan@haxney.org> wrote:
DH> Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com> writes:
>> Agreed, maybe Daniel can explain why using `tar-mode' was questionable.
>> Performance?
DH> The answer is "it seemed yucky." `tar-mode' was clearly not intended to act as
DH> an API for other programs looking to read tar files, so using it as such was
DH> kind of hacky. Using the external "tar" program seems like the cleaner
DH> alternative. Since package.el already uses the external tar program for
DH> `package-tar-file-info', I figured depending on tar for more substantial stuff
DH> was fine. If people really don't want to depend on the external program, I'll
DH> remove it and just use `tar-mode'.
I'm OK with the change if it doesn't break any existing W32 support.
Otherwise we're leaving many Emacs users unable to use package.el.
`tar-mode' seems pretty OK as far as the data extraction. So maybe we
just need to pull the data functions out into a utility library?
Either way, I'll wait for this to happen before working on the ELPA
security (signing packages). So if I can help, let me know.
DH> Is there any way to gunzip the data in a buffer without using an external
DH> program? It would be nice to be able to use tar.gz files.
Sorry, I don't know, but `ldd emacs' says libz is already available at
least on GNU/Linux. So the C functions should be there.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-14 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-12 1:03 cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests! Daniel Hackney
2013-03-12 2:01 ` Tom Tromey
2013-03-12 12:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-03-12 18:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-03-14 4:36 ` Daniel Hackney
2013-03-14 10:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-14 12:11 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-03-14 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-14 17:53 ` chad
2013-03-15 4:00 ` Daniel Hackney
2013-03-15 12:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-15 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-20 18:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-03-12 16:25 ` Daniel Hackney
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