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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <mrb@eng.sun.com> writes:

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph J Nuspl <nuspl@nvwls.cc.purdue.edu> writes:
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Joseph> How about making the default target for installing the info
Joseph> files gzip'ing them?

Thanks for the suggestion and patch Joseph, it'll appear in the next
betas.

Martin> I agree with Joseph that we should make this the default.  I keep my
Martin> .info files gzipped as well.

Martin> But in order to avoid creating a dependency on having gzip on the
Martin> PATH, we need to do the gunzipping within code that is linked in to
Martin> XEmacs.  This means that zlib would have to become a standard part of
Martin> XEmacs. This would make XEmacs a little bigger (my libz.a is 67k).
Martin> Who wants to implement it?

No.  You have to have gzip/gunzip to do anything meaningful with the
distribution tarfile (tar zxf still requires a gzip binary), so I
don't think a Makefile dependency on them is too much of a hardship.

Martin> While we're at it, we can also gzip the .el and .elc files (at least
Martin> the installed ones).

That's fine.  Do we have to install the .els?
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