Re: Compressed info files

[Akim Demaille]

> Le 11 mars 2015 à 18:59, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
>> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:29:38 +0100
>> Cc: Texinfo Bugs <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Back to square one: it should be clearer, somewhere rather
>> easily reachable, that compressed files are supported :)
> 
> But that's not user-level information, is it?  That's something system
> administrators and people who package software should be interested
> in.  Users only care that any Info reader out there is capable of
> showing Info files installed on their systems, no matter whether they
> are or aren't compressed.  And that's what happens, both with the
> stand-alone Info reader and with Emacs's Info reader.
> 
> Now, back to square one: why exactly did you need to find that
> information?  What did you need to accomplish?

To be able to tell the MacPorts maintainers that Info
readers support compressed files, and what kind of
compressed files are supported.  So that they can
spare some gigs of spaces on my machine.

That's all.  Honestly, it was a simple suggestion and
I am totally amazed by the amount of talking it triggered.

I'm fine if the suggestion is dropped, for whatever reason
(not applicable, etc.).  I'm done here.

Cheers.