From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 15:02:05 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <83txn76cj0.fsf@gnu.org> <4ACDB1853730452BA136101AAAA5B3D1@us.oracle.com> <83zjwy4zxe.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368018154 598 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2013 13:02:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 13:02:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 08 15:02:33 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 1Ua40u-0002Z6-It for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 15:02:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37338 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua40u-00039t-8A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 09:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49361) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua40n-00033F-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 09:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua40i-00066v-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 09:02:25 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua40i-000667-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 09:02:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua40f-0002Mi-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 15:02:17 +0200 Original-Received: from steria10.steria.no ([195.204.41.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2013 15:02:17 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by steria10.steria.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2013 15:02:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: steria10.steria.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:olNQXHKMOtqC7Wq3qkiS4OZwhFU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:159427 Archived-At: >>>>> Eli Zaretskii : >> From: "Drew Adams" >> 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.