[OpenLayers-Dev] ship only with minimal build for 2.12

[Tom MacWright]

There's no need for the current light build to be the one that ships: it'd
be simple to expand and specialize it a bit more to align with what's
needed by the Leaflet/Google Maps usecase.

Tom

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar at opengeo.org>wrote:

> The light build with the current lite configuration would be useless
> for most users. As Tom says, many people won't be able to use the
> python based build tool, and what then happens is much worse than
> people using a full build: they'll be using the debug loader or the
> hosted version from openlayers.org.
>
> So I'm -1 on shipping a light build.
>
> Andreas.
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Tom MacWright <tom at macwright.org> wrote:
> > Absolutely. If OpenLayers doesn't provide a jQuery-UI like build creator
> > (something that I tried to do with OpenLayerer, but that build-tool
> > refactoring was never accepted), then there should be a light build
> > distributed by default. The expectations of the user to run the Python
> > scripts are way too great for the use-case of just downloading and
> running
> > the thing, even if they seems simple for developers. Like, some guy
> making
> > an HTML website on a Windows machine would have to install Python from
> > scratch: it isn't going to happen.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Bart van den Eijnden <
> bartvde at opengeo.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> As suggested by Antoine on Twitter, and I agree. Clearly a lot of people
> >> are still using a full build, even if we tell people not to.
> >>
> >> So what about only shipping a minimal build for 2.12?
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/#!/bartvdeijnden/status/172328188704333825
> >> https://twitter.com/#!/brankgnol/status/172345191670358016
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Bart
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bart van den Eijnden
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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