Re: image and display issues still

[thi]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> > I don't understand what's the problem the way we have the CVS now.
> > I don't get the .elc files when I do a "cvs up -d".
> 
> The first checkout!  It is a horror to extract emacs anyway, but
> having such extreme file sizes as the elc.tgz archive sucks.
> 
> I'm sitting behind a (sometimes unreliable) 28.8k modem...
> 
> Isn't the idea of CVS to always have up-to-date files?  Conserving
> outdated tgz files there is really nonsense IMHO.
> 
> I rather suggest to use a tool like xdelta to create diffs between my
> suggested elc-archive -- instead of some MByte, the binary diffs only
> have some kByte.

an intermediate solution would be to maintain elc.tgz in cvs, but in a
different module than emacs' cvs module.

thi