[OpenLayers-Dev] Firebug Lite -> OpenLayers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:19:35PM -0400, Schuyler Erle wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 14:47 -0600, Tim Schaub wrote:
> > 
> > In case it's not clear from all my trac spam, Firebug Lite provides very 
> > non-obtrusive, optional, debugging functionality.
> > 
> > It will *never* get built into a single file version.  The only 
> > additional OpenLayers code is in OpenLayers.Console [1].
> > 
> > If someone doesn't have it, nothing happens.  The only time it does 
> > anything is if the firebug.js script is included before the 
> > OpenLayers.js in an application.  When this condition is met, any calls 
> > to OpenLayers.Console.log, .warn, .error, or others will show up in a 
> > Firebug like console.
> 
> I think this is a great feature. I guess my question is: Do we want to
> ship Firebug Lite *with* OpenLayers? or merely provide functionality
> they can go and get separately?

I don't see any reason not to ship it. It doesn't have to be deployed if
you're doing production, and when you're not, it's uber-handy.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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