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

[Stefan Monnier]

Po Lu [2022-10-26 22:11:38] wrote:
> On October 26, 2022 8:18:20 PM GMT+08:00, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>How about making zlib a required library for Emacs?
> This would be a little drastic,

zlib is ON by default, is required internally by gnutls which is also ON
by default, and is a requirement for the native compiler as well (which
is not ON by default), so it's not *that* drastic.

> but what about not supporting package installation from ELPA if zlib
> isn't installed?

Maybe if we relax this to "either compiled with zlib or can find `gzip`
in `exec-path`", it might be tolerable.


        Stefan