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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: nuspl@purdue.edu
Cc: XEmacs-Beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Distribution idea
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>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph J Nuspl <nuspl@nvwls.cc.purdue.edu> writes:

Joseph> Whenever I get a new distribution of XEmacs, the first thing I
Joseph> do after installing is gzip'ing the info files.  This saves 5M
Joseph> of space.  Granted 5M is not a lot but one of the major
Joseph> complaints that I hear about XEmacs is how much more space it
Joseph> requires to install.

Joseph> How about making the default target for installing the info
Joseph> files gzip'ing them?

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

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

While we're at it, we can also gzip the .el and .elc files (at least
the installed ones).
-- 
Martin Buchholz <mrb@eng.sun.com>
XEmacs Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc.

