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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 08:10:13 -0400
> 
> And yes, it would be nice to change this so that `elpa.gnu.org` could
> store the tarballs compressed and have Apache decompress them on the
> rare occasion where the client doesn't have a `.gz` decompressor.

How about making zlib a required library for Emacs?  I think most
systems have that nowadays, and we could provide our copy of the
library as part of our sources for those who might not have it.
Several projects I regularly build already do that, AFAICT.