From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:23:13 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83txn76cj0.fsf@gnu.org> <4ACDB1853730452BA136101AAAA5B3D1@us.oracle.com> <83zjwy4zxe.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366120963 3698 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2013 14:02:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 16 16:02:46 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 1US6T7-00042B-Km for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:02:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US6T7-0007r5-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53711) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US6Sy-0007qI-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US5r7-0001hf-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:23467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US5r0-0001gj-Ud; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r3GDNIn4003935 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:23:21 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r3GDNHbc011559 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:23:17 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt111.oracle.com (abhmt111.oracle.com [141.146.116.63]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r3GDNG5E004808; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:23:16 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:23:16 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <83zjwy4zxe.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: Ac46gDFwyI7tGFsPTc+2mykYJoML3QAJBDWw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:158947 Archived-At: > > Even though Emacs is bigger now than in the past, I would > > think that size (download & disk) is generally less of a > > problem nowadays than it used to be. > > Indeed. But still on Posix platforms, compression is the default > for some reasons, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > although these same considerations clearly apply there as well. So the question is clarified from "Should the files be compressed on Windows also?" to "What should the behavior be on Windows and (what should the behavior be on) Posix (for Emacs Dev distributions)?". Helper questions could be "Why is compression the default on Posix?" and "Why is the _default_ Posix behavior important in deciding whether Emacs Dev compresses or not for its distribution?"