I think the multiple download problem could be solved using some nice client side JS to
pick your locale. Otherwise doing English only and localized sound reasonable.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Darran Lofthouse <darran.lofthouse(a)jboss.com> wrote:
For this kind of issue over the years I have seen the following kinds
of
complaints about our distributions: -
- Download too large.
- Server to slow to start.
- First access to X to slow.
- Too many downloads to choose from and too many downloads for us to
maintain.
I don't know if you ever get this complete set resolved ;-)
Regards,
Darran Lofthouse.
On 03/30/2012 10:57 AM, Nicklas Karlsson wrote:
> Personally I would prefer a slim AS and only English. For better or
> worse, English is the defacto language of the Internet, Computer Science
> etc. The console is an expert tool and I would be surprised to find a
> person that would both a) know what to do with the console and b) not
> understand the English used.
>
> Of course there might be political reasons for multi-language support
> etc, just my 2c...
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Heiko Braun <hbraun(a)redhat.com
> <mailto:hbraun@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>
> guess that one is for the nerds list, right?
>
>
> On Mar 30, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Carlo de Wolf wrote:
>
>> Or we could make the notion of a package manager a first class
> citizen
>> in AS 7 and let it handle different downloadable setups.
>>
>> For example the one Jaikiran wrote some time back:
>>
https://github.com/wolfc/jboss-package-manager
>> (Given that rpms are not everywhere ;-) )
>>
>> Carlo
>>
>> On 03/30/2012 11:28 AM, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
>>> Is there no alternative for us to do some form of just in time
>>> processing for the languages as the resources are served? We have
>>> complete control of the HTTP server if we needed to insert something
>>> additional there.
>>>
>>> Alternatively I do see now why many companies offer different
> localized
>>> downloads now - as an alternative could we provide alternative
> downloads
>>> to add support for different languages to your AS installation.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Darran Lofthouse.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/30/2012 10:23 AM, Tomaz Cerar wrote:
>>>> The thing is that GTW does permutation of user-agent / language
>>>> That means if we support 6 languages and 7 user-agents we get 42
>>>> permutations. Every permutation Is 1.2mb (IIRC) that gives you
> the big
>>>> size...
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we can skip some old and obscure useragents?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> tomaz
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: jboss-as7-dev-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org
> <mailto:jboss-as7-dev-bounces@lists.jboss.org>
>>>> [mailto:jboss-as7-dev-bounces@lists.jboss.org
> <mailto:jboss-as7-dev-bounces@lists.jboss.org>] On Behalf Of Heiko Braun
>>>> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 9:16 AM
>>>> To: Benjamin Browning
>>>> Cc: jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
> <mailto:jboss-as7-dev@lists.jboss.org> Development
>>>> Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Console 1.1.0 Update
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> let me check what's going on. additional languages are one
> explanation,
>>>> but there must be something else that doesn't belong here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ike
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 29, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Benjamin Browning wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I brought this up in #jboss-as7 a while back after being
> baffled at how
>>>> much larger AS 7.1.1 was than 7.1.0. Apparently it's all GWT
> permutations
>>>> or something silly.
>>>>> If we translate the console into a few more languages all the GWT
>>>>> permutations may soon surpass the size of everything else in the
>>>>> entire distribution ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Paul Gier wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The 1.1.0 and 1.2.0 versions of the console are a lot larger
> than the
>>>>>> previous 1.0.x versions. Is this expected?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> jboss-as-console-1.0.2.Final-resources.jar ~ 10MB
>>>>>> jboss-as-console-1.2.0.Final-resources.jar ~ 46MB
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 03/06/2012 03:22 AM, Heiko Braun wrote:
>>>>>>> Notable changes in AS 7.1.1 at a glance:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /Additional Subsystems:/
>>>>>>> - infinispan
>>>>>>> - jgroups
>>>>>>> - modcluster
>>>>>>> - mail
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /Environment Properties:/
>>>>>>> The ability to view any system property that has been passed
> to the
>>>>>>> JVM when the server was started.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /What's next?/
>>>>>>> In the next iteration we'll focus on accessibility issues
(508
>>>>>>> compliance), remaining translations and missing runtime
> operations
>>>> (i.e.
>>>>>>> modcluster).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks to Stan, Pavel and David for their contributions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards, Heiko
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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