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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 22.3 and Vista
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Hi,

On Apr 9, 4:07=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii <e DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gnu DOT org> wrote:
>
> Thanks for testing, and for making it available to others.
>
> > P.S. Way too many Changelogs. And there are 10 copies of COPYING, heh,
> > is that really necessary?
>
> They say it is. =A0IANAL.

I would doubt it. Considering you need the main /emacs/ dir anyways, I
don't see that anything would change putting only one copy of COPYING
there (instead of various subdirs). Then again, maybe they think
various ports will only include their specific subdirs. Heck, just put
the GPL into the sources as compiled text, why not? It's small enough.
Or maybe it already is? (Nope, C-h C-a, Copying Conditions, just
loads /etc/COPYING whether that's the correct file or not.)

> > In a perfect world, all the docs would be .gz'd in order to save
> > space after unpacking (since auto- compression can mostly
> > transparently read 'em).
>
> On a Unix system, "make install" does that, but I never bothered to do
> the same for DJGPP, since (a) disk space is cheap these days,

<cliche>
Argh! (scream) }suffering{ *splat* ...dies...
</cliche>

> and,
> more importantly, (b) doing so would require gzip to be installed for
> the docs to be accessible, which IMO is an annoyance.

Note that DJTAR sadly does not support plain .gz files, only .tar.gz,
etc.

Anyways, it might actually worsen the overall download size, but you
at least save a lot of room once unpacked. And just for the record, if
you find it does matter, the latest GZip .ZIPs (bin + src) 1.3.12 for
DJGPP total less than 1 MB.

P.S. In fact, to come completely clean with yet another (horrible /
crazy) idea, why not include Freemacs in GNU Emacs as well? Hey, it's
GPL, it runs on 8086s, and it's smaller than even one single
Changelog! (Okay, obviously RMS would complain that it uses TASM, but
hey, that can be fixed if really desired.) No, I don't honestly expect
this to happen, but it's not really that bad an idea, is it??