Lets avoid storing binaries to our repository about nearcore HOT 2 OPEN

runtime/near-wallet-contract/res/*.wasm

In theory these can be removed because it should be possible to have every developer build them locally via the build script logic. Currently this requires docker, which I am not sure if it is considered a necessary part of developing for Near today. I am also not sure how that would interact with the current CI.

The reason I used Docker is because this is the recommended way of doing reproducible builds with near-sdk. If a fully reproducible build can be achieved with cargo along then that could simplify the build.

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The reason I used Docker is because this is the recommended way of doing reproducible builds with near-sdk. If a fully reproducible build can be achieved with cargo along then that could simplify the build.

Well, it definitely is an easy to understand (and difficult to get wrong) way of constructing an environment for reproducible builds, but it is indeed very possible to have reproducible Rust builds without containerization as evidenced by the likes of Debian very successfully doing so for large number of much larger rust projects.

Here's a relevant RFC that ought to make it a single cargo toggle away, but all the prerequisite functionality is already made available by the Rust compiler.

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