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

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:02:00 -0400, Stefan Monnier 
>>>>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said:

    Stefan> 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,

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

And letʼs not forget that the default value of `package-archives'
contains https URLs, so anyone building Emacs without GnuTLS is
already causing themselves problems with package downloads.

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

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

The latter would imply http downloads only for packages, which is not
something we should promote.

Robert
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