From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed?
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 16:56:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4l4l1rh.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21831.40666.491742.170889@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Mon, 4 May 2015 18:31:22 +0200")
>>>>> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:
> Some packages in ELPA have sizes around 5 MB, so I wonder why they
> can only be downloaded as uncompressed tarballs?
> Everything that is necessary to handle compressed files should
> already be there in Emacs.
I guess that the reason’s similar to the HTTPS case: the Emacs
compression support may be dependent on the presence of specific
libraries (as in: Zlib) on the target system.
That said, it should be perfectly possible to configure the
Apache HTTP server at elpa.gnu.org for transparent compression
support; that way, the data would be sent compressed by Apache
whenever the client claims to support compression. (By the
means of the ‘Accept-Encoding: gzip’ HTTP request header.
A glance at url-http-create-request seems to suggest it /does/
implement support for such requests.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-04 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 16:31 Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? Ulrich Mueller
2015-05-04 16:56 ` Ivan Shmakov [this message]
2015-05-04 19:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-04 19:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 13:12 ` Tom Tromey
2015-05-05 13:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-05-05 14:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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