Cutting cruft from third-party Mac OS X programs

Trim down Mac OS X applications (but be careful, as one might expect, you can break apps by messing with them in this way)

http://rixstep.com/4/2/trimmit,00.shtml

I asked Rixstep specifically about open source free software Java-based applications, generally ported from GNU-Linux:

Trimming apps:

What about Java-heavy cross-platform FOSS ports such as NeoOffice and Gimp?

Generally yes trimmable, or generally no?

I wonder if there are any lessons for the web development world-- programs that cut comments (and flag unused functions for removal) from production code, perhaps? In general we web design folks are pretty size and space-conscious for both bandwidth and disk space purposes, but the details of this program may reveal some systematic ways we could optimize performance.

Interdisciplinary web development: it's the Agaric way!

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