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

Jeroen van der Gun jeroen at blijbol.nl
Fri Jul 15 01:20:14 PDT 2011


Here you go. It's now down to 329 kB and that seems to be the bottom. I
didn't yet put it in makexpi.sh since I don't know the syntax for that.

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.
>>>
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