Am 02.02.2006 um 21:29 schrieb Fournier Eric:

> I have located in class FileDirectory (and, IMO, the wrongest place  
> for this to be) the spot where Squeak complains if the Changes and  
> Sources files are missing/unreadable/unwritable. To trim down my  
> end-user distribution, I'd like to silence the complaints and not  
> include these files (my user base will not be accessing Squeak in  
> such a way that these files will be beneficial to them).

There are two preferences for this

	warnIfNoChangesFile
	warnIfNoSourcesFile

Just disable them.

> 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.

- Bert -