Re: compress files patch for mac/make-package

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:37:38 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>     > The long term plan is to get rid of the gzip dependency for good and use
>     > zlib to provide decompression primitives directly in Emacs.
> 
>     Then let's postpone compression of .el files until that goal is
>     reached.
> 
> I see no reason to postpone it.

The reasons to postpone it were spelled out by Kim: this is an
unnecessary and somewhat controversial change, which could conceivably
produce bugs, while the advantages it brings are minimal.  IMHO, we
shouldn't make it until after the release.