[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

[Harald Pehl]

The plan is to ship a reduced console with 8.0.1

.: Harald


Am 25.02.2014 um 12:15 schrieb Harald Pehl <hpehl at redhat.com>:

> 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:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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