Re: compress files patch for mac/make-package

[Lennart Borgman]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>    Maybe add an
>
>         make install-gzip
>
> That's not a good idea.  First of all, most people won't think to use
> it.  Second, it departs from our standard.  The `install' target
> should do the compression.
>  
I do not know how to do it, but it is important to not gzip the files on 
platforms where gzip might not be available.

An alternative would perhaps be to ship a set of GNU utilities for Emacs 
on those platforms, but that is a rather big and complicated thing at 
present.