I said five years because it was a nice round number. Looking through the svn logs reveals that it has not changed significantly since 2005.
I made a feature request: 42406
Bizarre. I can take a very simple project and compile it in both RB 2008 and Xojo and get considerably different output.
33072 was closed with the status by design with the cause being stated as introspection.
33070 never got past the review status.
I think for introspection the rule should be:
Only stuff referenced is available or with an attribute to always link it in the app.
I had a thought… You (not the IDE) could run the FSEvents commandline tool and see each file that the application accesses during testing. That way you’d at least have a list, of what images are actually be used.