[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

[Harald Pehl]

I filed [HAL-381] to further track this.

[HAL-381] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HAL-381

Regards
Harald


Am 25.02.2014 um 01:19 schrieb Stan Silvert <ssilvert at redhat.com>:

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