[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

[Harald Pehl]

Am 24.02.2014 um 14:59 schrieb Tomaž Cerar <tomaz.cerar at gmail.com>:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I was just discussing with Harald could get distro size down by 25+MB if we would trim our console a bit.
> 
> Currently we compile console with 40 permutations, six browsers (ie6,ie8,ie9,gecko1_8,safari) and eight languages (en,de,es,fr,pt_BR,zh_Hans,ja,ko).
> 
> I think we could drop support for ie6 and get rid of extra localization with support only EN.
> IE6 market share is so low this days that it really does not make sense to support it in upstream anymore.
> Also we don't ship localization of logging messages/exceptions in WildFy anyway, so why have just one part localized.
> 
> This way we would get down to 4 permutations and our console distro would be 6.8Mb instead of current 32,3Mb
> 
> Also if people want extra localization, they could always just download full console release and replace that with jar we ship.
> 
> So what do you guys think?

Fully agreed. Besides the reduced distribution size, this would save me 20 minutes lifetime / per full build ;-) 

.: Harald

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