Only ship the required libs in the gem artifact #20
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This removes the test and development files from the gemspec so that these files don't have to be installed on every end users system. This helps to reduce install size for applications that bundle this gem. It reduces the compressed gem size by 3.5x. Signed-off-by: Tim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>
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Hey Tim, Thanks for contributing to pastel! I'm all for swapping There is however another issue which is to do with what files should gem be distributed with? I'm leaning towards including all necessary build files such as My gems are packaged for different distributions such as Debian, FreeBSD or ArchLiniux that use the source code to run tests against specific distro before cutting release. It is a generally good practice across different languages to include test suite in distribution of your code. The GNU tools are tarballs that include their build systems and when installed This is not a binary derivative of software but the source code itself. For a second, let's assume that GitHub stops to exists as a source code repository(rubyforge and google code died before) then all the software I have released would have just a fraction of necessary files. The fact that tests are installed on a user's machine when they install a particular gem is a shortcoming of rubygems. It's the same with documentation. You can opt out from installing documentation but you cannot for now opt out from installing tests. What do you think? I'm keen to make the right choice! |
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@tas50 Would be keen to know your opinion/ideas/thoughts? |
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This removes the test and development files from the gemspec so that
these files don't have to be installed on every end users system. This
helps to reduce install size for applications that bundle this gem. It
reduces the compressed gem size by 3.5x.
Side note: If this is a change that's ok with you I'd like to make it to your other
projects. We're loving all of them, but we're trying to keep our package sizes
down.
Signed-off-by: Tim Smith tsmith@chef.io