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Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? |
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Mon, 04 May 2015 15:11:31 -0400 |
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> 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.
Exactly (actually, linking with zlib is not needed since we can call
gunzip as an external program, but that still means that gzip needs to
be installed).
> That said, it should be perfectly possible to configure the
> Apache HTTP server at elpa.gnu.org for transparent compression
> support;
Should yes. See my latest attempt at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26895894/get-apache-to-auto-decompress-a-file-but-only-if-needed
Stefan