From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Weiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compressing ELPA Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 18:25:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87furnhj3g.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rswgnu@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c0332a698011705391e3354 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470176814 367 195.159.176.226 (2 Aug 2016 22:26:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:26:54 +0000 (UTC) To: "emacs-devel@gnu.org Development" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 03 00:26:51 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bUi9B-0008NN-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:26:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59226 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUi97-0007rA-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:26:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUi8X-0007qn-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUi8R-0006eS-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38762) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUi8R-0006e4-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-f48.google.com ([209.85.218.48]:34005) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bUi8P-0003Fk-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:26:01 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi0-f48.google.com with SMTP id l65so256893736oib.1 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:26:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoouu9f1okVR6apJ24eB8C+g528MxSP0DF99at1hHY3Zpkey13UZkKmMlTV81rAYVTm5O+0/IMSiKvtafWSg== X-Received: by 10.157.34.201 with SMTP id y67mr38384183ota.138.1470176760952; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:26:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.202.199.143 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:25:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206375 Archived-At: --94eb2c0332a698011705391e3354 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Rostislav Svoboda < rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com> wrote: > > SM> Distributing files as .el or .tar is a waste of disk space and > network > > SM> bandwidth. > =E2=80=8BIf you do change the way this works for ELPA, please also change i= t for package-x.el, i.e. the default way of uploading/distributing packages. It would ease maintainer burdens if there was a single, consistent way of preparing packages for distribution regardless of the archive to be used. Bob --94eb2c0332a698011705391e3354 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Tue, Aug 2, 20= 16 at 6:04 PM, Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com> wrote:
> SM> Distributing files as .el or .tar is a was= te of disk space and network
> SM> bandwidth.

=E2=80=8BIf you do change the way this = works for ELPA, please also change it for package-x.el, i.e. the default wa= y of uploading/distributing packages.=C2=A0 It would ease maintainer burden= s if there was a single, consistent way of preparing packages for distribut= ion regardless of the archive to be used.

Bob


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