[LEDE-DEV] Call defines for minifying scripting languages

[Jan-Tarek Butt]

On 10/03/16 14:18, Piotr Dymacz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 2016-10-03 13:14 GMT+02:00 Karl Palsson <karlp at tweak.net.au>:
>>
>> Jan-Tarek Butt <tarek at ring0.de> wrote:
> [snip]
>>> 1. Reducing memory size on firmware images.
>>
>> But will it? They're in the squashfs image, it's already been
>> demonstrated before that compressing things before can actually
>> have negative impacts.
> 
> That's true, my vote for 'optimization-only' approach and keep fs do
> the rest (compression).
> 
>>> 2. Strip out all comments (which makes us able to do better
>>> code commenting) 3. and so on.
> 
> IMHO, we could remove all comments from all scripts (not only Lua) in
> target rootfs and work on better documentation outside the code.
> 
> As an example of a huge, old comment, left in one of ar71xx base-files
> scripts, please see [1].
> It's inside every ar71xx image... does it really make sense to have it
> there, for devices without related hardware?

Exactly that's my point. I mean that is really not necessary.
And the comments will be stay inside the git. Only on the final images
there will be gone.

cheers
Tarek

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