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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113822: Add a test for decompressing	gzipped	data
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:30:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3eh9xr1se.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d2phpnhf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:25:00 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> But you assume that whoever needs this test needs it only for calling
> zlib-decompress-region.  What if there's some feature based on zlib
> that entirely makes no sense if zlib is not available?

You're right -- url-http sends "Accept-Encoding: gzip" if gzip decoding
is available.  So we need -available-p.

> Trying to decompress a file just to discover this sounds gross to me.

I agree totally.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1V8wyP-0003i5-8r@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2013-08-13  1:56 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113822: Add a test for decompressing gzipped data Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13  2:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13  3:45     ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-13  4:24       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-08-13  9:54       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-13 16:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 16:10           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-13 14:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13 14:47       ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-13 16:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 16:25       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 16:30         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2013-08-13 16:49         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13 18:04           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 18:55             ` Stefan Monnier

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