Re: Replace 'pp' with 'prin1' to generate ELPA archive-contents

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> AFAIK it's pretty easy to add support to Apache to auto-generate the
>>> `.gz` files on the fly.  I tried setting up the server to do the
>>> opposite (automatically serving the uncompressed version of the file
>>> when the file name without `.gz` is requested) but couldn't get it
>>> to work.
>>
>> I am not an Apache expert, but from what I read the "SetOutputFilter
>> DEFLATE" directive should enable gzip compression for requests where the
>> client supports it.
>
> We already did that for `.tar` files (and a few others).

Aren't the .tar files already compressed?

> I have now changed the config to also apply compression to
> `archive-contents` (and to the new `elpa-packages.eld`).

Great!