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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Stripping the release tarballs","articleBody":"(refs https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5612)\n\nI think we should be a bit more aggressive as to what we bundle in the release tarballs. I see it similar to how autotools handles `make dist` versus using the original repo; meaning most files there for specific development won't be included - but enough files to verify the state of the binary often is (read: test suite). With this strategy most dotfiles, readme's in the root directory would go away. Additionally, I'd suggest stripping everything related to linting and introduce some minor logic in `Makefile`/`vcbuild.bat` that points people to `git clone` if they want to do development. Theres probably a few more things in `tools/` we could strip, such as packagemaker-stuff.\n\nFinally, @bnoordhuis suggested we bake an alternate readme that we push as part of the release packages that more accurately represents whats included and how to use it.\n\nThoughts? Anything else that should go?\n\ncc: @nodejs/build, @bnoordhuis, @Trott, @jasnell\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jbergstroem","@type":"Person","name":"jbergstroem"},"datePublished":"2016-03-09T08:50:40.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/5618/node/issues/5618"}