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Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed?
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Ivan Shmakov |
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Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? |
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Mon, 04 May 2015 16:56:50 +0000 |
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>>>>> Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:
> Some packages in ELPA have sizes around 5 MB, so I wonder why they
> can only be downloaded as uncompressed tarballs?
> Everything that is necessary to handle compressed files should
> already be there in Emacs.
I guess that the reason’s similar to the HTTPS case: the Emacs
compression support may be dependent on the presence of specific
libraries (as in: Zlib) on the target system.
That said, it should be perfectly possible to configure the
Apache HTTP server at elpa.gnu.org for transparent compression
support; that way, the data would be sent compressed by Apache
whenever the client claims to support compression. (By the
means of the ‘Accept-Encoding: gzip’ HTTP request header.
A glance at url-http-create-request seems to suggest it /does/
implement support for such requests.)
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