Proguard: impossible to optimize/shrink
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Description
The -dontshrink and -dontoptimize options for Proguard are hardcoded in mx. This makes it impossible to have a distribution that is optimized by Proguard. Is it possible to remove these two options from the default and make them opt-in, or at least provide a way to remove those options from the Proguard command line for specific distributions (e.g. a new property like shrink: true)?
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
Read mx.py around line 1823 and trace how Proguard arguments are assembled for distributions. Check the generated Proguard command line for the configuration path; done means a distribution can opt out of -dontshrink and -dontoptimize while the existing default behavior remains defined.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100