[TYPO3-core] Removing feature of compressing and merging external files

[Stefan Neufeind]

On 01/07/2014 11:21 AM, Helmut Hummel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is a bugfix in Gerrit[1] which fixes an issue with external files
> not beeing correctly compressed when not merged.
> 
> I'm really asking myself why the feature of fetching external files was
> introduced in the first place and if it wouldn't be better to remove it
> rather than trying to fix it a fourth time[2][3][4].
> 
> Is there really a valid usecase for this usecase that has been
> introduced 2 years ago[5]?
> 
> We currently deal with the situation that TYPO3 got bloated (and slower)
> over time and start doing micro optimizations by removing not needed
> tenary operators. Maybe we should also start removing feature like this
> one that has no usecase (none that I'm aware of).

You can't compress a file on the remote server if it's not already
compressed there. So I see reasons why it might make sense.

But as always, choose your weapons wisely. Some people might not really
see what they are actually doing there - like having a remote jQuery
merged into the rest without really doing that by intention etc.


Regards,
 Stefan