These blank lines should not - under any circumstances - be here. But I
do know why they are...
Tim Starling modified the standard distribution of JSMin[1] in some good
and some bad ways. These blank lines are the result of one of these
modifications which I find to be misguided. He's basically only
compressed horizontal white-space, leaving new line characters in place.
The blank lines you see are where the comments used to be.
I have made this point before, clearly upon deaf ears - but I will make
it again.
* ResourceLoader has 2 modes. Production and Development (or debug)
mode.
* Production mode should be as fast as possible for users, period.
* Development mode should be as easy as possible for developers, period.
* Any attempt to blend the two only serves to diminish the
effectiveness of either mode.
If you want a version of the script that has not been compressed add
debug=true to the URL or set $wgResourceLoaderDebug = true; in your
LocalSettings.php.
This particular change (the "don't delete line breaks" part of r73196)
should be reverted, Tim's good changes should be pushed upstream, and we
should be using a standard JSMin distribution whenever possible.
- Trevor
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Code/MediaWiki/author/tstarling&path=/trunk/phase3/includes/libs/JSMin.php
On 12/7/10 5:32 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Why so many blank lines in this vector component?
> $ cat yy
> set
> 'http://transgender-taiwan.org/load.php?debug=false&lang=zh-tw&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=vector'
> GET $1|perl -nwe 'print " $." if /^$/'
> $ sh yy # These lines are blank:
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 26 27 28 29 32 33 34 37
>
> http://transgender-taiwan.org/load.php?debug=false&lang=zh-tw&modules=site&only=scripts&skin=vector&version=19700101T000000Z
> is affected too.
>
> Yes these aren't meant for human consumption.
>
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