Re: Why not zlib-compress-region?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:07:38 -0400
> Cc: Aurélien Aptel <address@hidden>,
>       Leo Liu <address@hidden>,
>       Emacs development discussions <address@hidden>
> 
> Of course, writing the glue in C means it needs to be passed to
> a C compiler, which means that the user who wants to use a package that
> uses such glue will need to have a C compiler installed.  A non issue
> under GNU/Linux, but a point of friction under W32.

Isn't it true that lately most Posix systems, including GNU/Linux, are
by default packaged without a development environment?