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

[Andreas Hocevar]

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
>>
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