[OpenLayers-Users] Compressed Open Layers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:30:23AM +0100, Tom (JDi Solutions) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently experimenting with compressing OpenLayers and have been
> running build.py to create a compressed version of the library, however the
> smallest version I seem to be able to make is 220K and from the output at
> the command line it seems to be including loads more stuff than I actually
> need despite my library.cfg file looking like this:
> 
> 
> I'm assuming I may actually need Rico, SingleFile, OpenLayers and
> BaseTypes?  But is it possible to get rid of the likes of virtualearth,
> yahoo and all that stuff?  All I want in this version is WMS, some mouse
> controls and point and I want the file as small as possible.  220K just
> seems like more than it ought to be?
> 
> Do I need to specifically include all the stuff I don't want in the exclude
> list or are things included as dependencies?

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Profiles

"If you wish to create a build where you must specify each file you wish
to include, you should then add files to an '[include]' stanza, as
lite.cfg does. If you wish to create a build where all files in the lib/
directory are included by default, and you wish to *exclude* certain
files, you can do this by putting filenames under the [exclude] header.
Look at the files library.cfg and lite.cfg in the build/ directory for
examples of this behavior."

Dependancies are/should be added automatically, though there are many
files that are missing dependancies that you may have to add manually.
missing dependancies can be filed as bugs.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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