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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Why not zlib-compress-region? |
| Date: | Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:27:54 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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
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