From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why not zlib-compress-region?
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:27:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvbrnpzta.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53AC0D17.9020604@yandex.ru>
>> Would be nice to have this as well. Any objection to adding it? Some
>> specs allow zlib-compressed data and this function can be very handy.
> Some time ago I proposed full zlib/bz2/xz (de)compression support.
> IIRC Stefan has rejected it to avoid creeping featurism and extra
> external library dependencies; see
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-08/msg00564.html.
An FFI could make this a non-issue ;-)
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-26 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-26 9:20 Why not zlib-compress-region? Leo Liu
2014-06-26 12:07 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-26 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-06-26 14:03 ` Leo Liu
2014-06-26 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-27 12:50 ` Aurélien Aptel
2014-06-27 13:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-27 15:32 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-27 22:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-28 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-28 12:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-06-28 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-28 16:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-06-28 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-28 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-29 3:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-06-29 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-28 18:06 ` Paul Eggert
2014-06-28 14:07 ` Richard Stallman
2014-06-27 19:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
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