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

[Andreas Hocevar]

I can already smell the questions on the mailing list and elsewhere
from people finding something not working when they go beyond the
"light" use case...

Still -1. What's so bad about a cacheable script of less than 1MB
gzipped, compared to a single non cacheable set of WMS tiles for a
fullscreen map with several MB?

Andreas.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Tom MacWright <tom at macwright.org> wrote:
> 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
>> >> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> Andreas Hocevar
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>



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