From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 15:02:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <upzcd2t1hbg2.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83zjwy4zxe.fsf@gnu.org
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> And even if they have gzip, some users will likely want to unzip all
>> of the .el so that they can more easily grep etc.
> How is this different from users on Posix platforms?
It isn't.
(Why is why I don't think it is such a hot idea there either, but YMMV...)
> In any case, uncompressing all of the files is easy on any platform
> that has gzip installed.
>> Is the gain from compression worth making them go through that extra
>> step?
> I don't know the answer to that. I asked this question (and stated
> the disk space savings) to hear opinions. Hearing questions instead
> of answers doesn't really help ;-)
>> Even though Emacs is bigger now than in the past, I would think that size
>> (download & disk) is generally less of a problem nowadays than it used to be.
> Indeed. But still on Posix platforms, compression is the default for
> some reasons, although these same considerations clearly apply there
> as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-08 13:02 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
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 [this message]
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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