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sugarlabs / free-from-malaria-activity

OLPC Sugar XO game to teach children about Malaria
http://worldclassproject.org.uk/
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Dist, locale and MANIFEST #3

Closed ayushnawal closed 4 years ago

ayushnawal commented 4 years ago

@quozl I am unable to understand the use of dist, locale and MANIFEST source files here. They are making the activity very heavy to clone to.

quozl commented 4 years ago

dist is not source file, but distribution zip files of bundles, made by python setup.py dist_xo,

locale is not source file, but compiled translation files.

MANIFEST is a list of files, and has been deprecated some years ago.

ayushnawal commented 4 years ago

Can we remove any of them along with MANIFEST, as they are making the repository too heavy :(

quozl commented 4 years ago

Sorry they are too big for you.

dist is 48 MB,

locale is 72 KB,

MANIFEST is 3.3 KB.

A git clone costs about 70 MB of network download, and 145 MB in a repository containing workspace, i.e. not bare.

Removing them won't reduce the download size of a git clone. Once a file is added to a git repository, it will always exist unless the commit history is truncated. Rewriting the history of this fork wouldn't change the upstream repository, and would make it harder to resolve changes between them.

I'd expect us to remove MANIFEST, locale and dist in activities in our control that we plan to release, but this activity doesn't seem likely to be released again any time soon. https://github.com/wcpolpc/FreeFromMalaria/issues/2.

ayushnawal commented 4 years ago

@quozl agreed, I will keep that in mind.