Remove Changes/Sources files in end-user distribution
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Feb 3 08:05:00 UTC 2006
Hi dan
do you have a check list of all the actions to be done in that way?
So that we learned. Mike produced some scripts in ReleaseBuilder and
I plan to study them soon now.
Stef
>>> The question is: can I get away with not including either of
>>> these files in an installation where some classes/methods will be
>>> re-compiled via update streams?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> Is there some hidden necessity to having these two files present
>>> in the installation?
>>
>> No.
>>
>> You might want to look at the Squeakland distribution, it does not
>> include source files either.
>
> Before relying on this, it would be advisable to remove your source
> files and *then* recompile the entire system (...recompileAll...).
> This should work fine, but I don't know that current maintainers do
> this kind of stress test (it is demanding of the decompiler) at
> every release.
>
> - Dan
>
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