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: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83txn76cj0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366056161 19929 80.91.229.3 (15 Apr 2013 20:02:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 15 22:02:45 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 1URpbv-0004is-81 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:02:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URpbu-0003gM-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URpbq-0003cq-Fm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URpbp-0006s5-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:27047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URpbo-0006rQ-0u; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:36 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxIEd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0QAROIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxIEd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0QAROIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="7470119" Original-Received: from 69-196-129-29.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.129.29]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 15 Apr 2013 16:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9F2BE67912; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83txn76cj0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:26:11 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:158935 Archived-At: > 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