[Yanel-dev] lookup tree's huge amount of new files committed

[Michael Wechner]

simon litwan schrieb:
> Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I was just wondering if the huge amount of new files that were 
>> committed in 42361, 42366, 42371 and 42402(*) could be reduced somehow.
>>
>> Some questions:
>> - are we doing things differently for this than what was already done 
>> WRT other GWT-based stuff? In particular 
>> http://svn.wyona.com/repos/public/yanel/contributions/ajax-components/README.txt 
>>
> yes, the lookup also uses the gwt-ext stuff.
>> - maybe some generic things -- the lookup tree cannot possibly need 
>> so more from-scratch code ;) can it?) -- could be moved to a common 
>> "shared-GWT" resource (so at least other GWT resources may benefit 
>> from it)?
> the most of it is this gwt-ext lib.
>> - also couldn't we GZIP the JS code as most of it seem 
>> obfuscated/minified already anyway?
> a possibility could be to add the gwt-ext lib as a maven-artifact (as 
> it is done for tinyMCE).

I think that would be a good idea
> but this wouldn't allow to share it really, each resource-type which 
> has it in the dependencies would extract it in the htdocs folder. but 
> maybe we could add it to the global htdocs folder.
>
> BTW the data-repo-sitetree resource-type also uses this lib. so it 
> would really make sense to allow sharing it.

sharing makes sense, but it's not clear to me yet how we best do this or 
rarther the above doesn't really convince me.
I think we need to do some thinking ;-)

But in any way, I think we should implement the artifact thing for these 
gwt code.

Thanks

Michi
>>
>>
>> (*) : You'd better not look at the commit E-mails but directly using 
>> Subversion as the E-mails are too big to be usable, at least for me 
>> using Thunderbird.
>> That's in itself another problem: I would have thought the commit 
>> E-mail script would nicely break the commit in manageable chunks. I 
>> saw it done elsewhere, so it should be configurable somehow. Any idea 
>> how, anyone?
> no idea.
>
> simon
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    Guillaume
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