[OpenLayers-Dev] Dynamic Build Technique -- from script.aculo.us

[Erik Uzureau]

I have made a ticket for this. Once 2.2 gets out, we can see about
scheduling this in....

http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/386

On 10/29/06, Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> Cameron, my comment was directed at the development cycle, not
> production environments.
>
> I would hope that you would keep the dynamic loading to support more
> rapid development.  It would really suck if you were trying to fix
> something and had to keep building a single JS to test each change.
>
> OpenLayers already has a mechanism for producing a single js file.
> What is missing for developers is the ability to load some subset of
> the individual files for a particular application - essentially the
> ones that you would be compiling for a production environment.
>
> It is not always the best case to develop with all files loaded if
> that isn't your target environment because you may be inadvertently
> relying on some file you weren't planning to include in your build.
>
> The mechanism described would be ideal, IMO.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On 28-Oct-06, at 8:54 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> > We dynamic loading in Mapbuilder.
> > However, we have plans to drop this functionality.
> >
> > The downsides of dynamic loading are:
> > * The user needs to download multiple JS files instead of one. This
> > is slower.
> > * It is harder to compress JS if it is spread across multiple files.
> > The best compression is achieved when you reduce the size of
> > variable names from "counter" to "x1" or similar. This only works
> > if the compression program is assessing all the JS source at once.
> > Ie, you can't run:
> > compress file1
> > compress file2
> > compress file3
> >
> > You need to run
> > compress file1 file2 file3
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul Spencer wrote:
> >> This is actually pretty cool ... for me, this would replace
> >> compiling  a sub-set of OpenLayers when developing and testing for
> >> something  like WebMap.js.
> >> Cheers
> >> Paul
> >> On 26-Oct-06, at 7:17 AM, Erik Uzureau wrote:
> >>> I was looking through the script.aculo.us wiki this morning and
> >>> came accross
> >>> this bit on how they allow optional loading of different
> >>> components. Seems like
> >>> something we might want to look into for OpenLayers.
> >>>
> >>> Thoughts?
> >>> -erik
> >>>
> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> -- --------------
> >>> from: http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Usage
> >>>
> >>> 3. Link to script.aculo.us
> >>>
> >>> Link to the scripts in the head of your document:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <script src="javascripts/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></
> >>> script>
> >>> <script src="javascripts/scriptaculous.js" type="text/
> >>> javascript"></ script>
> >>>
> >>> By default, scriptaculous.js loads all of the other javascript files
> >>> necessary for effects, drag-and-drop, sliders, and all of the other
> >>> script.aculo.us features. If you don't need all of the features, you
> >>> can limit the additional scripts that get loaded by specifying
> >>> them in
> >>> a comma-separated list, e.g.:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <script src="scriptaculous.js?load=effects,dragdrop" type=...></
> >>> script>
> >>>
> >>> The scripts that can be specified are:
> >>>
> >>>    * builder
> >>>    * effects
> >>>    * dragdrop
> >>>    * controls
> >>>    * slider
> >>>
> >>> Note that some of the scripts require that others be loaded in order
> >>> to function properly.
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> > Cameron Shorter
> > http://cameron.shorter.net
>
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> |Paul Spencer                          pspencer at dmsolutions.ca    |
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> |Chief Technology Officer                                         |
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