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

[Stefan Monnier]

Stefan Kangas [2022-10-26 07:33:56] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> No, otherwise they'd be `.tar.gz`, `.tar.lz`, etc...
>> We don't compress them so that you can install them even from Emacsen
>> that don't have access to a `.gz` decompressor.
> Could we provide both the .tar and .tar.gz, and leave it up to
> package.el to download whichever one is supported?

I'd rather not.

> Or do we have very limited disk space?

There's that as well.


        Stefan