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Re: `gzip` dependency


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: `gzip` dependency
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:22:52 +0200

> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:00:32 +0000
> 
> >> 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.

Emacs installs Info files that can be used outside of Emacs.  So I
think it could be an issue for Emacs.



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