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

[Jeroen van der Gun]

* learns Python *

I managed to get my first Python script working, I've removed comments
and whitespace between tags, I'm now down to 335 kB. Now going for
whitespace inside tags, will send the script when that works as well. :)

Publieke sleutels voor e-mailcryptografie
<http://www.jeroenvandergun.nl/pki>

Op 14-7-2011 16:47, Peter Eckersley schreef:
> 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.
>>
>> Publieke sleutels voor e-mailcryptografie
>> <http://www.jeroenvandergun.nl/pki>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.eff.org/pipermail/https-everywhere/attachments/20110714/e6e09d67/attachment.html>