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From: | Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: | Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed |
Date: | Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:09:06 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes: > >> Isn't the built-in zip support used for uncompressing things (.el.gz > and > >> .info.gz) when gzip is missing? IIRC that was recently added. > > > Phillip> I haven't tried! If it does do that now then this switch needs > Phillip> removing. It didn't when I added it many years back. > > I donʼt know if the builtin zip support works here, but itʼs moot: > zlib support is optional, so you canʼt rely on it always being > available (unless youʼre going to ensure that here). We are talking about a binary distribution. Its creator can ensure that the required dependencies are included on the binary package.
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