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

[Stefan Kangas]

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?

Or do we have very limited disk space?