I think that's a great idea! The more we can reduce the image size the
better off we'll be (esp. since these items seems extraneous to what we
need).
Joe
Shrey Banga wrote:
Hi all,
I've been working on the EAR PlanCreator and I've observed that dojo is
shipped with all the demos, tests and experimental widgets in place,
causing the folder to be about 12.8 MB on the expanded server
(2.2-SNAPSHOT).
Looking at the various folders, I think we can achieve significant
reduction in the dojo footprint and eventually of the server itself by
removing the following components:
dojo/tests - 579 KB
dijit/tests - 551 KB
dijit/demos - 909 KB
dojox - 6.82 MB
From a geronimo user's perspective, the tests suite is not of much use
as they are meant to test the widgets provided by dojo itself which can
be tested by separately downloading the given release instead of
shipping it with the server. Similarly, the demos, which are used to
exhibit dojo's capabilities, can be run directly from dojo's website or
downloaded and run locally without the server. Also, people trying to
learn from the demos tend to use the css provided for the purpose of the
demo, which is not recommended.
My rationale for removing the dojox is that these are marked as
experimental by the dojo community and although some components are used
often, keeping 6.8 MBs of code that is still experimental does not make
sense. It is better to trust the dojo community to shift components from
experimental to stable areas and then use them in further releases.
Removing the stated components frees up about 8.7 MBs of space on the
expanded server, which is huge for a javascript library. Since a
Geronimo user can still include these components into his/her webapp
we're not really stopping them from using these components, only
transferring the overhead of using the lesser used components onto the user.
--
Shrey Banga
Bachelor of Technology, III year
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
