On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:14:58PM -0500, Matt Priour wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:01:51PM -0600, Tim Schaub wrote: > >> At some point, it seems like we should discuss hosting a lite (but > >> fairly functional build) so people wouldn't complain about OL continuing > >> to get bigger with every release. > > > > I think the real answer is we shouldn't make using a full build of > > OpenLayers the recommended path, and instead encourage everyone to build > > a custom build profile. > > I think one path that OpenLayers could take in 3.0 is to implement lazy, > on-demand loading of the library components like YUI. Also like YUI, it > could be hosted on Google's CDN and have several "pre-built" modules so that > neither the entire library is downloaded nor each specific file unless need > be. > Just a possible idea for the future.
We've discussed this i the past, but this is something that requies a lot of effort to get right; in the past we've gone against this kind of thing due to the difficulty. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
