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

[Stefan Monnier]

Robert Pluim [2022-10-26 17:18:49] wrote:

>>>>>> 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.

Not really:

(defcustom package-archives `(("gnu" .
                               ,(format "http%s://elpa.gnu.org/packages/"
                                        (if (gnutls-available-p) "s" "")))
                              ("nongnu" .
                               ,(format "http%s://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/"
                                        (if (gnutls-available-p) "s" ""))))

>     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.

We're not promoting them, we're not just doing all we can to
prevent them.


        Stefan