Re: Compressing the Lisp and Info files in the MS-Windows installation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:02:34 -0400
> 
> > 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".

If it's still "no", then the precompiled binaries will have to be
distributed uncompressed.

The question about the "make install" default still stands, though.