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Heavy dependence on non-reproducible artifacts #297

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@MightyAlex200

The build scripts included in this repository are heavily dependent upon the exe files in bin/, and the whole repository in general is filled with generated outputs. This is generally considered bad practice as it reduces portability, increases file size unnecessarily, produces redundant information which can quickly become out of date, and gives malicious actors the opportunity to hide malware in opaque executable files.

I am making this issue as a Linux user primarily because I don't want to have to use WINE to use a development tool which apparently has no dependence on Windows whatsoever.

Can we take steps to fix this? In particular:

  • Removing all exe, dll, jar, and a files from the source tree
  • Removing all doxygen generated files from the source tree
  • Removing compiled ROM binaries in sample directory

Of course, all exe, a, jar, etc. files generated by source code in this repository can and should continue to be released as artifacts in Github releases.

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