From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compress files patch for mac/make-package Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:13:19 +0200 Message-ID: <85wtk96za8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87fyqz1i0s.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <87ach6x9h2.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129752877 1072 80.91.229.2 (19 Oct 2005 20:14:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Romain Francoise , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 19 22:14:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESKJX-0003yT-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:13:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESKJX-00045O-A9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESKJN-00044J-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:13:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESKJM-000447-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESKJM-000443-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESKJM-0000CE-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESKJM-0002SK-1s; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 875BB1C4CD7D; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:13:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:01:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:44340 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Romain Francoise >> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:16:25 +0200 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> "Richard M. Stallman" writes: >> >> > Would you like to change `make install' to compress the >> > .el files? >> >> Ok, I'll do that in a few days' time in case someone objects to the >> change. > > I suggest that we be careful and conservative here. > > First, there are some .el files that don't have a corresponding .elc > file; I think such .el file should not be compressed, since then Emacs > will not work without gzip being available. > > Second, I think this compression should not be done on non-Posix > systems where gzip is not available. > > And third, I think that we should not compress as part of tarring the > distribution. Maybe add an make install-gzip target? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum