[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

[John Doyle]

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

> On 2/24/2014 3:55 PM, John Doyle wrote:

> > ----- 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.
> 

> 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.
We have users that cannot connect to the internet for security reasons. 

> > > 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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