[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayerer & build tools refactoring

[Marc Jansen]

Hi Tom,

good job!

I had a shot on that idea of a custom OpenLayers-Build a while ago: 
http://www.webmapcenter.de/olbuild/makebuild.php (I guess it id working 
with OL 2.7). It hasn't been updated for some time now and the tool s 
not being maintained. It may not always do what you expect it to do, 
since it has not been deeply tested. You have been warned :-)

Regards,
Marc

Tom MacWright schrieb:
> Hey All,
>
> Two days ago, I finally looked at the OpenLayers build tools and at my 
> current situation with the large weight on OpenLayers on lots of 
> production sites, and figured that it would be very easy to build a 
> web interface for the build tools something like the jQuery UI 
> download builder, or the mootools core builder. Anyway, it was very 
> simple to do, and a proof of concept is up 
> at http://openlayerer.appspot.com/ (say it ten times fast). Building 
> that simple site gave me a pretty good vantage point to see the 
> problem points of the build tools, especially build.py, which doensn't 
> even have code to be included - whenever its code is loaded, it runs. 
> So, the results are a ticket, first of all, which refactors build.py 
> and eliminates the need for buildUncompressed.py. The patch basically 
> makes the source understandable, prevents the module from running on 
> include, and gives some better entry points for 3rd party projects 
> (like my own) to get in. http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2260
>
> The second is the code for the appengine-powered site on github (which 
> doesn't use that patch 
> yet http://github.com/tmcw/OpenLayerer/tree/master ). Roadmap for that 
> looks like:
>
> * selecting formats, debug tools as well
> * specifying whether you want compression to be performed at all
> * specifying a version (very close on this one, it's a very simple change)
> * eventually showing some indication of file size before you press 'do it'
> * probably restyling.
>
> Since this kind of online tool somewhat bucks the unfortunately 
> prevailing idea that OpenLayers is huge and prolific, it might be the 
> kind of thing OpenLayers.org might be interested in. Regardless, I'm 
> interested to hear what you all think about this kind of work and 
> please take a look at the code & patches.
>
> Tom MacWright
> http://www.developmentseed.org/
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