There's no need for the current light build to be the one that ships: it'd be simple to expand and specialize it a bit more to align with what's needed by the Leaflet/Google Maps usecase.
Tom On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Andreas Hocevar <[email protected]>wrote: > The light build with the current lite configuration would be useless > for most users. As Tom says, many people won't be able to use the > python based build tool, and what then happens is much worse than > people using a full build: they'll be using the debug loader or the > hosted version from openlayers.org. > > So I'm -1 on shipping a light build. > > Andreas. > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Tom MacWright <[email protected]> wrote: > > Absolutely. If OpenLayers doesn't provide a jQuery-UI like build creator > > (something that I tried to do with OpenLayerer, but that build-tool > > refactoring was never accepted), then there should be a light build > > distributed by default. The expectations of the user to run the Python > > scripts are way too great for the use-case of just downloading and > running > > the thing, even if they seems simple for developers. Like, some guy > making > > an HTML website on a Windows machine would have to install Python from > > scratch: it isn't going to happen. > > > > Tom > > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Bart van den Eijnden < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> As suggested by Antoine on Twitter, and I agree. Clearly a lot of people > >> are still using a full build, even if we tell people not to. > >> > >> So what about only shipping a minimal build for 2.12? > >> > >> https://twitter.com/#!/bartvdeijnden/status/172328188704333825 > >> https://twitter.com/#!/brankgnol/status/172345191670358016 > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Bart > >> > >> -- > >> Bart van den Eijnden > >> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > >> Expert service straight from the developers. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev > > > > > > -- > Andreas Hocevar > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ > Expert service straight from the developers. >
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