Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[Óscar Fuentes]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>     >> Isn't the built-in zip support used for uncompressing things (.el.gz 
> and
>     >> .info.gz) when gzip is missing? IIRC that was recently added.
>
>
>     Phillip> I haven't tried! If it does do that now then this switch needs
>     Phillip> removing. It didn't when I added it many years back.
>
> I donʼt know if the builtin zip support works here, but itʼs moot:
> zlib support is optional, so you canʼt rely on it always being
> available (unless youʼre going to ensure that here).

We are talking about a binary distribution. Its creator can ensure that
the required dependencies are included on the binary package.