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

[Joachim Schiele]

compression is really important and i would like to have this as a nix
option as well! but eelco might be right as this should be a per vhost
option but i'm not sure about that.

+1

On 12.09.2015 11:05, Wout Mertens wrote:
> 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
> <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
> <http://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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