From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed?
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 15:11:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv383c17nm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4l4l1rh.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (Ivan Shmakov's message of "Mon, 04 May 2015 16:56:50 +0000")
> I guess that the reason’s similar to the HTTPS case: the Emacs
> compression support may be dependent on the presence of specific
> libraries (as in: Zlib) on the target system.
Exactly (actually, linking with zlib is not needed since we can call
gunzip as an external program, but that still means that gzip needs to
be installed).
> That said, it should be perfectly possible to configure the
> Apache HTTP server at elpa.gnu.org for transparent compression
> support;
Should yes. See my latest attempt at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26895894/get-apache-to-auto-decompress-a-file-but-only-if-needed
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-04 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 16:31 Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? Ulrich Mueller
2015-05-04 16:56 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 19:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-05-04 19:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 13:12 ` Tom Tromey
2015-05-05 13:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-05-05 14:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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