Re: `gzip` dependency

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:52:07 -0500
>> 
>> > The gzip thing is again your call (having gzip in the package is no
>> > big deal, IMO).
>> 
>> BTW, we don't really need a `gzip` executable as long as we have the
>> `zlib-decompress-region` function, right?
>
> Not necessarily, because Info files can be read outside Emacs.


This is not an issue for the Windows package of Emacs, as far as I can tell.


Phil