From: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: compress files patch for mac/make-package
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:16:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764rttg8u.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uveztcm38.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:01:47 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
That's pretty obvious...
> Second, I think this compression should not be done on non-Posix
> systems where gzip is not available.
How would you compress files on systems where gzip isn't available
anyway?
> And third, I think that we should not compress as part of tarring the
> distribution.
make-dist and `make install' are completely independent.
(Besides, compressing the .el files inside the tarball would make the
compression less efficient and result in a bigger tarball.)
--
Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> | I just thought I'd go out
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-19 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-17 20:06 compress files patch for mac/make-package bryan d. o'connor
2005-10-18 3:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-18 6:00 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-19 2:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-19 7:16 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-19 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-19 20:13 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-20 4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-20 7:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-20 7:20 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-20 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 23:37 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-21 9:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 9:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-20 9:32 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-20 11:00 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-20 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-19 20:16 ` Romain Francoise [this message]
2005-10-19 21:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-20 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 23:37 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-21 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-22 4:18 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-29 10:42 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-29 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-29 14:14 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-19 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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