--Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
> Still that's not what I described:
>

Sorry you are correct, I didn't read carefully enough!

> Currently there are only two ways: all included or all
> referenced. And when
> referenced it assumes full J is installed. My idea is like
> reference, but
> it will recreate a local folder structure with only necessary files.
> The advantages is that it preserves the integrity of folder structure,
> allows possibly to combine a few apps like that, etc. This will also
> work nicely with addons, because there it's not always clear which
> files are needed.

So this would be similar to the approach of the Application Distribution 
Installer, but would distribute even less of full J installation, namely only 
those scripts/components necessary?

Given that the Application Distribution script has already dropped big parts of 
the full J install (~help, ~examples), there may not be that much opportunity 
for reducing the installation size.  Maybe ~system/extras/labs could also be 
omitted, and the user could specify which tools were necessary? After that it 
seems to me only small gains are possible.

> I ran the Application Building lab. It is very instructive.
> But maybe there needs to be or already is, a guide that shows
> what to do next after build to produce an installation and how
> it is deployed, etc. Then it would show how to build a multi-platform
> solution.
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