From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pre-test windows binaries Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 11:26:35 +0100 Message-ID: <87io08qkro.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87lh5e4049.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8d28bd9c-2832-431e-9d63-2fc072f3222d@default> <8760wg51zs.fsf@russet.org.uk> <4256288b-5206-418f-bbc4-1835d245ca2e@default> <871t744yi9.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87twk03hao.fsf@russet.org.uk> <883dab42-f4b3-4903-830c-1e38eb016c67@default> <871t70z1mz.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87k2ksdlfi.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459074428 25824 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2016 10:27:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 10:27:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Fabrice Popineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 27 12:26:58 2016 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 1ak7uM-0001Ef-6q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 12:26:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35373 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ak7uK-0002E4-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 06:26:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45115) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ak7u7-0002Dn-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 06:26:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ak7u2-0001SL-J7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 06:26:43 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([31.216.48.48]:56848) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ak7u2-0001SA-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 06:26:38 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=v2C6fs8uYSsPqvHYdvrgil2QUQDkgv5jQFtPlfM9dpE=; b=o0mc1F7mPYVjTzVX69P1VzuYyx ampByBFr8q7od2SBqdxma2BsTCmtrZYRp01q96wRfEWhYiL0Kh5ucNGkEhBxkqF9N+nZ3Ak5OXUs4 uj/dh/cMoMK2sYGEWFCPUT7qmBw6CR/Je768mFFNt4NDFJ4lOCXgvZegok9agyxTpoO3dwckNyb1w iKMC/FI4twSx/0cRkKNqfsS7APf4caXcu74bvIwtJD7G8eoEBmI1gK/BWmzVtkWk0rr8zi0nGNUsC wnj+9q/1PVDsngsVWJLBYD2vyKEWTL22fjX163uutPZCapBNa5+w+gyzlu1EhEszMzCgPGXg5+5Y2 U6/WaPGA==; Original-Received: from [90.216.189.44] (port=48149 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.86_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ak7u1-003xU7-LM; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 11:26:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Fabrice Popineau's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:56:31 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 31.216.48.48 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:202279 Archived-At: Fabrice Popineau writes: > Stefan Monnier iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > >>=20 >> > I agree too that Windows should not be a special case. However, I'll >> > prefer uncompressed files on all platforms (except perhaps those that >> > are too constrained.) >>=20 >> That's your prerogative. But I think that compressing the files is the >> better default. > > Seems to spare about 30% of disk space on my NTFS partition: > > lisp directory size: 71=C2=A0827=C2=A0784 bytes > actual lisp directory size on disk: 77=C2=A0844=C2=A0480 bytes > > After uncompressing all .el.gz files : > > lisp directory size: 112=C2=A0124=C2=A0612 bytes > actual lisp directory size on disk: 118=C2=A0095=C2=A0872 bytes > > So there is definitely some benefit in compressing them. And none at all if you have use NTFS compression. Also, if you stop talking about percentages, then we are talking about 30Mb, i.e. nothing at all. If reading them is transparent, why not? If it requires anything at all from the user, why? Phil