I can already smell the questions on the mailing list and elsewhere from people finding something not working when they go beyond the "light" use case...
Still -1. What's so bad about a cacheable script of less than 1MB gzipped, compared to a single non cacheable set of WMS tiles for a fullscreen map with several MB? Andreas. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Tom MacWright <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev
