[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

[Brian Stansberry]

On 2/24/14, 2:55 PM, John Doyle wrote:
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>     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.
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> That might be fine for WildFly, but additional downloads is an
> anti-requirement for EAP.

IMO it would be an anti-requirement for the main distribution of WF as 
well -- the one where you download a zip and unzip it to get a full EE 
appserver. But it could be common in other ways we distribute.

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>     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.
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>     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.
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>     Stan
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>     On 2/24/2014 8:59 AM, Tomaž Cerar wrote:
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>         Hey guys,
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>         I was just discussing with Harald could get distro size down by
>         25+MB if we would trim our console a bit.
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>         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).
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>         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.
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>         This way we would get down to 4 permutations and our console
>         distro would be 6.8Mb instead of current 32,3Mb
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>         Also if people want extra localization, they could always just
>         download full console release and replace that with jar we ship.
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>         So what do you guys think?
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>         --
>         tomaz
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Brian Stansberry
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