Condensed Sources vs. Squeak Maintainence

Mathieu SUEN mathk.sue at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 09:52:23 UTC 2006


2006/7/24, Marcus Denker <denker at iam.unibe.ch>:
>
> On 24.07.2006, at 09:41, Mathieu SUEN wrote:
>
> > 2006/7/24, Marcus Denker <denker at iam.unibe.ch>:
> >>
> >> On 24.07.2006, at 08:46, Peace Jerome wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I've noticed that condensing sources is on the todo
> >> > list of the 3dot9 gamma push.
> >> >
> >>
> >> One of the problems is that the .changes is limited to 32 MB,
> >> and 3.9 7048 is already 25MB, which means people would
> >> very soon see the limit in normal use (e.g. when loading a bunch
> >> of packages).
> >>
> >
> > And can we extend the limit?
> >
> 1) Yes, but it is some work.
> 2) Unrealistic to do in 3.9beta
> 3) Even if it is extended, do we then want to ship a 50MB changes
>      file? or a 500MB one in 20 years?
>

O yes I see



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