[Nix-dev] I want nice things (apache compression)

[Wout Mertens]

Hi all,

see
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/9d82f7e53e66e5594b0c8b82f6c415a0a386b580
which
reverts a site-wide optional compression feature I added. The discussion
and lack of answering can be found at
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9407#issuecomment-134523359.

IMHO, configuring Apache is annoying and not easy to get right, so I would
love to have an enableCompression flag. Data point: nixos.org doesn't use
compression, for no good reason.

I'm not happy that the commit got reverted without answering my question,
but that's what happens in a benevolent dictatorship I guess.

So I would like to know what would be an acceptable configuration. I'm
guessing:

   - Configurable site-wide and per virtualhost
   - Only compress known-compressible files: html, css, json, svg, txt, md

Right?

Wout.

PS: Alternatively, there could be a sort of plugin system for
configurations which allows implementing this sort of configuration sugar
without going into nixpkgs and with minimal end-user effort to keep
up-to-date. I don't know what such a system would look like.

-- 

Wout.
(typed on mobile, excuse terseness)
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