We plan to change the sources management. But not immediately. -- Pavel
2017-06-09 14:51 GMT+02:00 Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]>: > Why cannot we have the sources in the image? > > When I asked it 2 years ago people were like: "oh, but you can just > download 1 sources file and use it by all the images". I don’t care about > that micro space savings, but fine, I said: have it your way. Now as we > have to download sources all the time, why cannot we just have it IN the > image? > > Uko > > > On 9 Jun 2017, at 10:01, Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > because during the image bootstrapping all source code is reloaded, it is > all placed in the changes file and the sources file is useless. It would be > strange to deliver Pharo with empty sources file and big changes so we > decided to do sources compacting for every build. > > So Pharo 7 development versions will be delivered in an archive with three > files named like: > > Pharo7.0-117934d.image > Pharo7.0-117934d.changes > Pharo7.0-117934d.sources > > where "117934d" is an abbreviated hash of the Git commit from which the > Pharo image was bootstrapped. The sources file will be build-specific and > of course you will be able to share it between images based on the same > build. In changes file you will have only you own changes. > > You can test it here: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/7.0/job/70- > Bootstrap-32bit/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/bootstrap-cache/Pharo7.0- > 117934d.zip > > Cheers, > -- Pavel > > >
