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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation |
| Date: | Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:34 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> A related issue is whether the precompiled Windows binaries should be
> distributed with these files compressed. If they are compressed, end
> users will need to have 'gzip' installed to be able to use them.
AFAIK that's the main issue. Can we expect the vast majority of
Emacs-on-Windows users to have gzip installed?
AFAIK the working hypothesis until now was "no".
Stefan
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