Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:16:25 +0200 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Would you like to change `make install' to compress the >> > .el files? >> >> Ok, I'll do that in a few days' time in case someone objects to the >> change. > > I suggest that we be careful and conservative here. > > First, there are some .el files that don't have a corresponding .elc > file; I think such .el file should not be compressed, since then Emacs > will not work without gzip being available. > > Second, I think this compression should not be done on non-Posix > systems where gzip is not available. > > And third, I think that we should not compress as part of tarring the > distribution.
Maybe add an make install-gzip target? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel