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

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 06:43:20 +0000
>> 
>> Aren't the .tar files already compressed?
>
> No, they are basically just a concatenation of the original files'
> contents, with some headers that describe the files' names and
> attributes.

Of course, I meant to ask whether elpa.gnu.org was serving .tar.gz (or
some other format) files or just plain tarballs.  It turns out that this
is not the case, which means that the HTTP compression is not
pointless.