[Chandler-dev] Keeping Feed and other parcels out of the end users' binaries

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> Philippe Bossut wrote:
>> Proposal: Objective: prevent support issues with those parcels from end
>> users while continue to promote the development of parcels by 3rd party
>> developers:
>> 2- The "changes, work to do" part:
>> - Provide end users' binaries *without* those parcels: this is a change
> 
> I am all for this. For 0.7 I think it would be fine if we tell users how
> they can use Cheeseshop and easy install to get those. For 0.8 and
> beyond I would like to see a menu item that would do this automatically,
> a la Firefox.

Agreed, some sort of integration into the UI would be great. 0.8 (aka 
our second "Preview" release) might be the right time for this. I 
suspect 0.8 will be the right time to start putting more emphasis on 
supporting plugin parcels, but more about that later. ;)

> I would also go further and strip everything that is not strictly needed
> to run Chandler (tests, tools, etc.). This would save almost 4 megs of
> download size on Windows, probably more on OS X and Linux.

I have an old bug to move test code to its own parcel (Bug 4617). 
Perhaps the updated version of this is to move test code to its own egg, 
so that we have this option. I'd be psyched to tackle this for alpha5 
(its been a long time since I've committed anything!).

Cheers,
Katie