[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

[Stan Silvert]

On 2/24/2014 3:55 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.
The user doesn't necessarily know the difference as long as he is 
connected to the internet.  Whether the console app is first downloaded 
from the EAP server or from a Red Hat server shouldn't matter.

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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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