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[Richmond]

On 08/07/14 19:02, stephen barncard wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Now, if I build a standalone with version 7 it is really bloated compared
>> with a standalone
>> hived off an earlier version: possibly because of all those additional
>> features my standalone is
>> not even going to use.
>>
> As there is no GM version of 7 yet, one might reserve judgement regarding
> bloat - as one could assume that there is some amount in debugging code in
> the pre-release versions. In addition, I would expect some major trimming
> to occur through compiling adjustments and code revisions.
>
>

As far as I understand, a very large amount of the bloat (or 'bloat' if 
you prefer) is
due to the open source stuff to expand Livecode's Unicode abilities: 
they will, most definitely
not be trimmed as they are very much part of the new feature set of 
Livecode 7.

Richmond.