The subject says it all: why are symbolMaps files not gzipped? Each permutation produces, for our project, a 41Mb file. Fortunately we're only producing 2 permutations, but it still makes more than 80M that we don't (yet?) use, and there's no switch to turn them off. Gzipping brings the file size from 41M down to 1.4M! and because this used for logging, and because most people will probably log only errors (and maybe warnings) in production, I think the size outweighs the performance here. Not to mention that this has caused issues when it was introduced, with people keeping the default of generating them to war/WEB-INF and being refused upload of their app to AppEngine (files too big), and then wondering whether it was safe to simply not deploy them.
So, would gzipping be an issue? or in other words, is it worth providing a patch for that? Thanks in advance -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
