Time to condense sources?

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Tue Sep 16 22:04:24 UTC 2003


Tim Rowledge wrote:

>Since the sources and executable can be in a single place for all 400
>users (and by the way, congratulations on getting that sort of project
>going) what does it matter whether the .sources file is 10Mb or 15?
>
>Now if you're talking about a full condenseSources to empty the
>changelog, that would make sense BUT thus far we've only done that for
>major releases. One big disadvantage is the loss of history, which
>might be important to a lot of developer types.
>  
>

I agree that we should stick with the convention of only doing a full 
condenseSources for a major release.  (Squeak 4.0.)

>Nothing prevents you from doing it for your own purposes though. Since
>I imagine you'll be customising the image a fair bit anyway, just
>imagine it as a small branch on the family tree.
>  
>

Right. :-)

- Doug




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