294847 - Option for make-jars.pl to compress result

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Description

[:Mook]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050519 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050519 Firefox/1.0+

I'm using make-jars.pl to package my extension xpi and would like the ability to
actually compress the result (instead of the current "-0" for chrome jars). 
Patch coming in a sec, adds a "-9" switch to make-jars.pl to enable compression.
 Does not change default behaviour (so if the new switch is left out it's
exactly the same as it is now).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[:Mook]

Attachment: Adds -9 switch

Perl newbie, please tell me if I did anything bad.  Thanks.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Why? Performance of uncompressed JARs is significantly better than compressed
JARs. Why can't you just compress the *extension* (XPI) with -9? That way it's a
small download, but performs well at runtime.

Comment 3

[:Mook]

I am compressing just the XPI with -9... It's just that I'm making the XPI with
make-jars.pl too (so I can preprocess stuff like install.rdf).  The .jar files
themselves are still uncompressed, I'm just abusing the system to make XPIs for
me too :)  (At this point I still need to rename the result from .jar to .xpi,
but that's a lot easier than rebuilding the functionality of make-jars.pl)

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

We've done plenty with JAR compression since this bug was last updated 12 years ago. This bug is no longer relevant.