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: Compressing ELPA (was: GnuTLS/TLS proposals for after the release) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:00:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87furnhj3g.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469019861 31189 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2016 13:04:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:04:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 20 15:04:13 2016 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 1bPrAZ-0002WC-7z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:04:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPrAY-0003Zs-JO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:04:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPr6x-0000rG-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPr6s-0005Oi-Fh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38735) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPr6s-0005OF-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bPr6p-0000C6-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:00:19 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.156.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:00:19 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:00:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qvS0W8mpPTp9D2U5z8ml1EKieAU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:205864 Archived-At: > Another step in the same direction is to make ./configure fail if > libgnutls is not found. Along the same lines, it'd be good to require the presence of a decompressor, so that we can start compressing the ELPA archives. Distributing files as .el or .tar is a waste of disk space and network bandwidth. I know in theory we could have the web server de-compress the files on the fly if/when the client doesn't support compression, but somehow I wasn't able to make this work (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26895894/get-apache-to-auto-decompress-a-file-but-only-if-needed). Stefan