59110 - win32 nightlies contain both jar and uncompressed chrome

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 53462

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect, P3)

Description

[K Chayka]

For some time now, all the chrome and skins have been in jar files, but the 
win32 nightlies (other than installer.exe) still contain both jars and all the 
uncompressed chrome/skins - almost 2.5M worth of excess.  The uncompressed files 
are no longer needed to run Mozilla, so please remove them from the nightly zip 
files.  If somebody actually wants uncompressed files, they can always extract 
them from the jar files.

Those of us with slow connections will appreciate it.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

--> build config

I asked the same question once, and was told that it was there for debug
purposes. If you have a slow connection you should get the installer

however, letting build config people choose what to do with this. Adding leaf to
cc cause he loves spam and is our main build person

Comment 2

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

See also the discussion in bug 53462 "Option for jars only in tarballs".
Adding that bug as dependency. Is a separate bug needed for linux, or is the
linux case covered by these two existing bugs?

BTW, if the uncompressed chrome is removed from the tarballs, we might want to
include an "unjar" utility in the chrome dir that takes care of the extra
directory level when the jars are unzipped. I have made something for unix here:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=18213 
This makes unzipping the chrome as simple as "cd chrome && unjar *.jar"
Maybe someone can come up with something similar for Windows?

I strongly agree that the uncompressed chrome should be removed from the
tarballs, especially given that it's trivial to recreate it if desired.

Comment 3

[cls]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53462 ***

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

must of missed it somehow, verified