Cutting the fat - Umbraco Release Filesizes

[Lee Kelleher]

Since I've been maintaining an (unofficial) archive of the release zip files, I've noticed the filesize steadily increase.  See the following graph:

For reference: http://jsfiddle.net/leekelleher/ktnpa8n7/2/embedded/result/

I know many will say "disk-space is cheap" or "who cares?"  For me it raises the questions: What are we shipping with default Umbraco? Do we need to look at cutting the fat?

The issue tracker has tickets for removing various legacy code for the v8.0 release - which would bring down the DLL sizes - so we know that's already on the cards.

Other places to review...?

• 3rd party DLL dependencies - do we *need* CookComputing.XmlRpcV2.dll, HtmlAgilityPack.dll, Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.dll, TidyNet.dll, UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewriter.dll, et al? Could our dependencies be refactored?
• XML docs (in the /bin folder - for both Core and 3rd party) - great for Visual Studio, maybe ship with NuGet package only?
• Legacy images - e.g. 7.x still ships the v4/v6 tray images. (I get nostalgic too)
• Umbraco_Client folder - how do we know what is being used?
  

I can raise specific tickets on the issue tracker, but wanted to align with community/core-team before doing so.

Cheers,

- Lee

[Robert Foster]

One thing that @pgregorynz noticed last week was the amount of .less source files included in the release (Nuget package probably) of current builds…  This certainly wouldn’t be helping…

-          Rob.

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[Aaron Powell]

If there’s dll’s that are unused dropping them is a good idea, it’ll decrease app startup time and overall memory usage.

 

From: umbra...@googlegroups.com [mailto:umbra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert Foster
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One thing that @pgregorynz noticed last week was the amount of .less source files included in the release (Nuget package probably) of current builds…  This certainly wouldn’t be helping…

-          Rob.

 

From: umbra...@googlegroups.com [mailto:umbra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lee Kelleher
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Subject: Cutting the fat - Umbraco Release Filesizes

 

Since I've been maintaining an (unofficial) archive of the release zip files, I've noticed the filesize steadily increase.  See the following graph:

 

For reference: http://jsfiddle.net/leekelleher/ktnpa8n7/2/embedded/result/

 

I know many will say "disk-space is cheap" or "who cares?"  For me it raises the questions: What are we shipping with default Umbraco? Do we need to look at cutting the fat?

 

The issue tracker has tickets for removing various legacy code for the v8.0 release - which would bring down the DLL sizes - so we know that's already on the cards.

 

Other places to review...?

• 3rd party DLL dependencies - do we *need* CookComputing.XmlRpcV2.dll, HtmlAgilityPack.dll, Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.dll, TidyNet.dll, UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewriter.dll, et al? Could our dependencies be refactored?
• XML docs (in the /bin folder - for both Core and 3rd party) - great for Visual Studio, maybe ship with NuGet package only?
• Legacy images - e.g. 7.x still ships the v4/v6 tray images. (I get nostalgic too)
• Umbraco_Client folder - how do we know what is being used?

 

I can raise specific tickets on the issue tracker, but wanted to align with community/core-team before doing so.

 

Cheers,

- Lee

 

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[Stephen Gay]

I'm all for removing whatever is not required to run Umbraco.
We probably add stuff, and seldom consider what can be removed.
So if anybody has time to try and figure out what can be removed... all the best.
Stephan

[Lee Kelleher]

Thanks for the replies.  I'll gather some info and open relevant tickets.

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[Shannon Deminick]

There will be PLENTY of code/files/etc... cleaned up in v8. There's a ton of tasks in there already for v8 cleanup and a lot of it has already started. We'll be trying to remove nearly all of the legacy DLLs and hopefully ship with only a few umbraco specific DLLs. The umbraco_client folder will hopefully not even exist along with tons of the client files in the /umbraco folder. We'll be looking at the dll dependencies the project has and might be able to remove a few, we'll see how it goes.