I've wondered a bit about this also.  Looking at my SVN checkout of SC
7.4, it's grown to almost 500 MB, while an installation using the
Windows installer is only about 72 MB.

You face a number of challenges: 1) figuring out which folders and
files aren't needed, 2) figuring out whether you can configure
TortoiseSVN or some other SVN client to exclude what you don't need,
and 3) telling the SVN client to not keep old files and the update
history needed to roll back changes.

I'd say your best bet might be to just download the nightly builds of
the Windows ZIP file.  It's a lot more to download each time, but you
end up with a much smaller installation.  This would mean you'd be
running the Windows EXE version of the server instead of the Perl
files.

The ZIP file is fairly easy to work with, and you could probably
automate the installation - you just shut down SqueezCenter, unzip the
files over the previous version, then restart SqueezeCenter.  You may
be able to further trim this install down by deleting firmware for
players that you don't own and maybe plugins and web skins that you
don't use.


-- 
JJZolx

Jim
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