[HTTPS-Everywhere] "make uncommitted" becoming obsolete; new XML format, and other goodies

[Peter Eckersley]

I'd prefer not to add another scripting-language dependency to the the build
process if possible.  Could you be talked into Python, which we already use?

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 04:19:49PM +0200, Jeroen van der Gun wrote:
> I don't really know much about Linux shell scripts, but would a PHP
> command-line script to minify the XML be okay? If so, I can make one.
> 
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> Op 14-7-2011 0:58, Peter Eckersley schreef:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 03:49:08PM -0700, Maxim Nazarenko wrote:
> >> Precompilation? Binary XML?
> >>
> >> On 13 July 2011 15:36, Jeroen van der Gun <jeroen at blijbol.nl> wrote:
> >>> If you put everything in a single XML file, wouldn't it also be useful for
> >>> performance reasons to minify this file (e.g. strip white space, line
> >>> breaks, comments) to make it parse faster and to keep the file size down?
> > All of the above are worthwhile suggestions (another win would be to leave
> > the file gzipped on installation, and decompress it from within Firefox at load
> > time, which would save another ~250 kB of disk IO).  
> >
> > However these things are all diminishing returns from the change we just made,
> > so we'll consider patches to implement them but aren't planning on doing so
> > ourselves.
> >

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