denort is an optimization to "deno compile" to produce slightly smaller
output. It's a decent idea, but causes a lot of negative side-effects:
- Deno's link time is a source of constant agony both locally and in CI,
denort doubles link time.
- The release process is a long and arduous undertaking with many manual
steps. denort necessitates an additional manual zip + upload from M1
apple computers.
- The "deno compile" interface is complicated with the "--lite" option.
This is confusing for uses ("why wouldn't you want lite?").
The benefits of this feature do not outweigh the negatives. We must find
a different approach to optimizing "deno compile" output.
This commit adds --target and --lite flags to deno compile subcommand.
--target allows to cross-compile binary to different target architectures by
fetching appropriate binary from remote server on first run. All downloaded
binaries are stored in "$DENO_DIR/dl".
--lite allows to use lite version of the runtime (ie. the one that doesn't contain
built-in tooling like formatter or linter).
This commit adds new binary target called "denort".
It is a "lite" version of "deno" binary that can only execute
code embedded inside the binary itself.
Co-authored-by: Bartek Iwańczuk <biwanczuk@gmail.com>
