* Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com [Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:11:19 -0500]:
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Victor Vasiliev vasilvv@gmail.com wrote:
I strongly disagree with removing tests from the /trunk/phase3 directory. They should be there, though they may be thrown out on
the
release. Maybe introduce a "production" branch where the phase3 is mirrored without development stuff?
Too much work IMO.
I think the easiest solution is to just tweak the make-release script to exclude the tests directory (wherever we end up putting it).
One can even imagine that some subset of tests might be performed after the completion of installation, to verify it. As for rare languages, text messages have good compression ratio, the distribution may originally have rare language file compressed with gzip and unpacking it on demand, when there is first attempt to load this particular language. Dmitriy