From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why not zlib-compress-region? Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:50:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83egy97cj6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <53AC0D17.9020604@yandex.ru> <53AD8EA8.9090805@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403938289 20654 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2014 06:51:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, dmantipov@yandex.ru, sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 28 08:51:20 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 1X0mTo-0000Wj-BD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:51:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53745 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0mTo-0004pA-2L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0mTf-0004ox-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0mTa-00079B-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:52809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0mTa-000791-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N7V004008XTUV00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:47:05 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N7V00OOC9IH8270@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:47:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:172789 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:07:38 -0400 > Cc: Aur=E9lien Aptel , > =09Leo Liu , > =09Emacs development discussions >=20 > Of course, writing the glue in C means it needs to be passed to > a C compiler, which means that the user who wants to use a package = that > uses such glue will need to have a C compiler installed. A non iss= ue > under GNU/Linux, but a point of friction under W32. Isn't it true that lately most Posix systems, including GNU/Linux, ar= e by default packaged without a development environment?