From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Antipov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why not zlib-compress-region? Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:07:51 +0400 Message-ID: <53AC0D17.9020604@yandex.ru> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403784500 21510 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2014 12:08:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Liu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 26 14:08:13 2014 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 1X08TM-0002sM-2c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X08TL-0005NN-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43602) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X08TB-0005N3-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X08T4-0001Ev-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:08:01 -0400 Original-Received: from forward8l.mail.yandex.net ([84.201.143.141]:41011) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X08T4-0001Eo-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:07:54 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.mail.yandex.net (smtp11.mail.yandex.net [95.108.130.67]) by forward8l.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id A0C051A412BC; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:07:52 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from smtp11.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp11.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 449FF7E0182; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:07:52 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from unknown (unknown [37.139.80.10]) by smtp11.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id dSsZs7pFlt-7qt0FBTr; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:07:52 +0400 (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) X-Yandex-Uniq: b695ef67-34b2-4b76-8e95-a27116e06818 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1403784472; bh=ZswwODTOKAe+hLd21z7Mnt1/CdY9kYuY5Zp04stVmks=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject: References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Lr4qbq9m5sFpoEHkuugIq/Kwuc5N6Eq7EjU6zS0040C13QmaqsnPTNrsHEyEtxGGl XjQl2Rv43OALxl/dudXa6FlAwS6d1rkCHqT/+w0xNymSJAbN7jS8Cd2xKqOPhXNACU fBY2YLI/vPpa05Mpgj0Qoql0TqcU3x5jDcZ2CVxo= Authentication-Results: smtp11.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 84.201.143.141 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:172749 Archived-At: On 06/26/2014 01:20 PM, Leo Liu wrote: > Would be nice to have this as well. Any objection to adding it? Some > specs allow zlib-compressed data and this function can be very handy. Some time ago I proposed full zlib/bz2/xz (de)compression support. IIRC Stefan has rejected it to avoid creeping featurism and extra external library dependencies; see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-08/msg00564.html. Dmitry