When developing applications

[eluser]Mark Skilbeck[/eluser]
So, it's about time I developed something I can call my own, and I believe CI is the best way for me to do this (I'm sure you will agree?).

What my overly-active mind is thinking, though, is: when you develop an application using CI, do you export the whole of CI when you make the APP available? Do you take the whole CI directory tree, application, system, everything, and put this into a downloadable?

It just seems to me that there would be a whole lot of unused files there?

Am I missing the point here?