On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:33 AM, 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.
Sounds good to me, in principle. Would like to understand the purpose
of the dojox library.
Recently, while unpacking a geronimo server archive, I was struck by
the number of dojo files in the server. Just took a look at a Geronimo
2.1.1 server image:
'find . | grep dojo | wc' shows 2655 dojo related files/directories
'find . | wc' shows 5735 total files/directories. 46% of our files are
for dojo... That's crazy...
--kevan
