> > I think I already proposed it some time ago (after someone told me that > Google doesn't actually use them) and got some feedback that they make > their build faster. > A quick search in the groups gave me > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/O8HaPzExxhc/X16AnKZI2JAJ, > but nothing more. >
Does anybody know how much compile time is actually saved by using gwtar files? I have no idea and generally I don't care if a production compile takes 10 or 15 minutes. It is just a bit unfortunate that the build file needs to be in sync with GWT module inheritance but maybe it is possible to write a gwtar tool that always does the right thing based on the given module inheritance (naive thoughts: generate a gwtar per graph clique or start with a defined module and do a breadth first traversal to generate one gwtar per module). Then users who want to use that feature could run the tool, but the GWT build would not do so by default. Or GWT does continue to generate them but packages the result in a different jar that is an optional dependency. At the end I am only interested in having small SDK download sizes as I use SNAPSHOT builds in private projects. So I am also fine with just getting rid of gwtar files. -- J. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/a137e122-7e2e-45dc-9e04-76fca0270e59%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
