From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 15:11:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <21831.40666.491742.170889@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87y4l4l1rh.fsf@violet.siamics.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430766735 11439 80.91.229.3 (4 May 2015 19:12:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 19:12:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 21:12:04 2015 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 1YpLmd-0007Fe-Px for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 21:12:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35579 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpLmd-000513-64 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 15:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpLmZ-00050y-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 15:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpLmU-0000S2-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 15:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:32845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpLmU-0000Ru-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 15:11:54 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3516C9C11F; Mon, 4 May 2015 15:11:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F82A1E5B94; Mon, 4 May 2015 15:11:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 37BDBB41A0; Mon, 4 May 2015 15:11:31 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87y4l4l1rh.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (Ivan Shmakov's message of "Mon, 04 May 2015 16:56:50 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 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:186201 Archived-At: > I guess that the reason=E2=80=99s 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. Exactly (actually, linking with zlib is not needed since we can call gunzip as an external program, but that still means that gzip needs to be installed). > That said, it should be perfectly possible to configure the > Apache HTTP server at elpa.gnu.org for transparent compression > support; Should yes. See my latest attempt at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26895894/get-apache-to-auto-decompress-a= -file-but-only-if-needed Stefan