Re: pre-test windows binaries

[Óscar Fuentes]

Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden> writes:

>> If we believe that files should not be gzipped by default on windows
>> (and I agree with you that they should not be), then perhaps this 
> option
>> needs to default to off when build on windows. As it stands, the
>> windows zip files I have made are not using the default options in a
>> couple of ways.
>
> Albit I found it strange at first, I don't see why we should make 
> Windows a special case. Both .el and .info files are gzipped when 
> running 'make install', but this transparent when you visit them.
> So there is no need to bother.
>
> Try: M-x find-library , then files and the file visited is files.el.gz 
> in clear.

I agree too that Windows should not be a special case. However, I'll
prefer uncompressed files on all platforms (except perhaps those that
are too constrained.) It is true that we can use zgrep instead of grep
and other text-searching tools have switches for supporting compressed
files, but having to use those is an inconvenience anyway and just solve
the text-searching task.