From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvobdfbm25.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83txn76cj0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:26:11 +0300")
> A related issue is whether the precompiled Windows binaries should be
> distributed with these files compressed. If they are compressed, end
> users will need to have 'gzip' installed to be able to use them.
AFAIK that's the main issue. Can we expect the vast majority of
Emacs-on-Windows users to have gzip installed?
AFAIK the working hypothesis until now was "no".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-15 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-15 15:26 Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-15 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-04-15 20:13 ` Drew Adams
2013-04-16 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 13:23 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-08 13:02 ` Steinar Bang
2013-04-16 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-16 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-16 8:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-16 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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