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

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> 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!).

This should include John's testing skins.

Andi..