Exclude Engine Components

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How does the team decide which component exclusions to add to the .appmanifest file? Currently there aren’t many of them, and there are plenty of heavier features that aren’t listed like tilemaps and gui, which are examples of features I don’t use due to design flaws (in my opinion of course). During some time away from Defold, I noticed that frameworks like Raylib and SDL allow a lot more customization.

I remember submitting this ticket some time ago. Should I add more like this, or is this kind of suggestion not something that needs to be tracked via ticket?

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The engine has evolved over a long period of time and some of the older systems will require more work to exclude. It’s also a matter of how much size would be gained vs effort to make it “excludable”. And the likelihood that someone would ever want to exclude the specific component or system.

Your request to exclude the GUI is a good one, but it’s also complicated to exclude the GUI. We have a goal to completely remove the GUI or at least get the gui and go worlds closer together.

Yes, please!

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