We plan to change the sources management. But not immediately. -- Pavel 2017-06-09 14:51 GMT+02:00 Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymchuk@me.com>:
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 donât 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 <pavel.krivanek@gmail.com> 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