Re: Mysterious gzipped images

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> DEFUN ("decompress-gzipped-region", Fdecompress_gzipped_region,
>>        Sdecompress_gzipped_region,
>
> Wouldn't it be better to have a single `decompress-region' function to
> which you specify the decompression algorithm? It's almost certain that
> if we add gzip, down the road someone will request bzip2, or xz, or...

Well, yes, that will probably be requested, but would require extra
libraries.  gzip is "free", since it's already built into 99% of Emacs
builds already.  So it smacks of premature overengineering to me.  >"?

> Then you can add a companion `compress-region' function which also takes
> the compression level, etc.

I think we can rely on external programs for compression.  It's not
something that Emacs needs to do efficiently.

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