[etoys-notify] [JIRA] Created: (SQ-647) Compress sources

[Bert Freudenberg (JIRA)]

Compress sources
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                 Key: SQ-647
                 URL: http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-647
             Project: squeakland
          Issue Type: Feature
          Components: etoys, etoys-olpc
            Reporter: Bert Freudenberg
            Priority: Critical
             Fix For: etoys 5 and showcase


OLPC asked us if it was possible to save space on the XO-1.5. That machine does not use a compressing filesystem anymore. If we could provide a fix within a week it would be very helpful.

The most promising is compressing the sources file. Squeak supports this:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3510
and compressing the sources works indeed.

Just execute "Smalltalk compressSources" and move the resulting "EtoysV4.stc" into the Etoys documents folder. File size is reduced from 18765396 to 6328304 bytes. 

However, after restarting Etoys and trying to browse a method it complains about the sources file being corrupt. It seems to decompress fine but there appears to be an offset so the source chunk is not read correctly.

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