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Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation
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Steinar Bang |
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Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation |
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Wed, 08 May 2013 15:02:05 +0200 |
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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
>> And even if they have gzip, some users will likely want to unzip all
>> of the .el so that they can more easily grep etc.
> How is this different from users on Posix platforms?
It isn't.
(Why is why I don't think it is such a hot idea there either, but YMMV...)
> In any case, uncompressing all of the files is easy on any platform
> that has gzip installed.
>> Is the gain from compression worth making them go through that extra
>> step?
> I don't know the answer to that. I asked this question (and stated
> the disk space savings) to hear opinions. Hearing questions instead
> of answers doesn't really help ;-)
>> Even though Emacs is bigger now than in the past, I would think that size
>> (download & disk) is generally less of a problem nowadays than it used to be.
> Indeed. But still on Posix platforms, compression is the default for
> some reasons, although these same considerations clearly apply there
> as well.
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