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

[Bert Freudenberg (JIRA)]

    [ http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-647?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=39089#action_39089 ] 

Bert Freudenberg commented on SQ-647:
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Pushed as 2340compressSources-bf.cs. The Sugar-Etoys release 4.0.2340 uses compressed sources now.

IMHO the next Squeakland release should do likewise. Leaving this ticket open as a reminder.

> Compress sources
> ----------------
>
>                 Key: SQ-647
>                 URL: http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-647
>             Project: squeakland
>          Issue Type: Feature
>          Components: etoys, etoys-olpc
>            Reporter: Bert Freudenberg
>            Assignee: Bert Freudenberg
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: etoys 5 and showcase
>
>         Attachments: compressSources-bf.1.cs, compressSources-bf.2.cs
>
>
> 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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