[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

[John Doyle]

----- Original Message -----

> I'm hoping that it won't be long before the web console is a separate
> download that merely connects to WildFly/EAP. At that point we would not
> ship web console with the server and this won't really matter any more.

That might be fine for WildFly, but additional downloads is an anti-requirement for EAP. 

> I assume that if we do trim the console, it will be for WildFly only? That's
> probably a good thing but we would need to explain why the EAP download is
> so much larger.

> Also note that localization is not just for logging messages and exceptions.
> Some DMR operations are localized too and presumably the result does show up
> in the web console UI.

> Stan

> On 2/24/2014 8:59 AM, Tomaž Cerar wrote:

> > 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?
> 

> > --
> 
> > tomaz
> 

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