Re: [wtp-dev] WTP SDK bloat

[Arthur Ryman <ryman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

Nice work. Let's try to keep WTP lean
and mean.

Arthur Ryman,
Rational Desktop Tools Development

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Timothy Deboer/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
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06/15/2005 04:30 PM

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Hi, 

Before anyone flames me, I wanted to explain why I opened up 12+ defects
against WTP this morning. When I downloaded our SDK, I found that the source
plugins were bloated full of unnecessary files - duplicate source, runtime
jars, etc. Although most components only contributed a little bit to the
total, when you add it all up it's quite a lot. I know there was a fix
made recently to use build.properties correctly and David said he'd give
everyone a few days - so think of my defects as 'tracking bugs'. :) Here
are the stats: 

Original SDK: 
53,964K download containing 5,922 files, 81,920K in zip
size on disk: 98,968K 

After a couple minutes of minor cleanup and deleting duplicate files:
45,390K download containing 2,687 files, 58,118K in zip
size on disk: 67,231K 

For those keeping track, that's a: 
16% reduction in download size 
32% reduction on disk 
45% reduction in files 

I did this quickly and probably missed a lot of cleanup that could have
been done. Plus, this is _without_ the improvements that could be made
by jarring the rest of our plugins. As a reminder:

What belongs in build.properties? 
schema files 
component.xml 
very little else :) 

What doesn't belong in build.properties? Basically, anything that already
exists within the runtime plugin: 
src directories (these are included automatically when you build a jar)
plugin.xml 
plugin.properties 
icons 
manifest files 
.classpath 
.project 
build.properties 
runtime jars (yeah, found a few of these!) 

Thanks, 
Tim deBoer
WebSphere Tools - IBM Canada Ltd.
(905) 413-3503  (tieline 969)
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