Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> 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.