Bug 11295 – Nightly download size is misleading

• Component: WebKit Website
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Lars Næsbye Christensen]

The size of the nightlies have been over 6 MB for a while now. Guess we should change the notice that says it's 5 MB.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

It's been over 6MB for precisely two builds.  Due to my primary machine being out of action I have been using less optimal build flags while buliding the nightlies, which has resulted in slightly larger builds.  Once my other machine is back from being repaired the nightly size will drop closer to it's former size.

[Lars Næsbye Christensen]

Created attachment 12143 [details]
Changes "Download nightly" from 5 to 6 MB

Well, the size's been slowly crawling upwards and has now been around 6 MB for quite many builds, so I'll just put the patch here for when/if we want it.

Happy New Year, by the way! :-)

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Reopened bug per Comment #2.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

I think it may be preferable to get rid of the size from the graphic -- it's unlikely the size of the nightly builds is ever going to substantially drop, and at the rate we're adding new features (SVG, JS bindings for SVG, etc) it's not unlikely that the size will continue to slowly increase.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Committed revision 18578.

+        Reviewed by NOBODY (OOPS!).
+        http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11295
+        * images/download.png:

Please note that I extended the ChangeLog entry to be more informative.

(In reply to comment #4)
> I think it may be preferable to get rid of the size from the graphic

To me, a graphic with a file size means that it's a direct download link (which it isn't). So, I agree. Let's do that when it reaches 7 MB?

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > I think it may be preferable to get rid of the size from the graphic
> 
> To me, a graphic with a file size means that it's a direct download link (which
> it isn't). So, I agree. Let's do that when it reaches 7 MB?

I still think the logo should be an SVG that updates the size based on an HTTP query of the nightly web site!  I guess that should almost(?) work now with MacDome's recent SVG changes, although this wouldn't work when rendered in other browsers.

[Lars Næsbye Christensen]

(In reply to comment #5)

> To me, a graphic with a file size means that it's a direct download link (which
> it isn't). So, I agree. Let's do that when it reaches 7 MB?
> 

I agree too. The page it links to displays file sizes, so maybe we should just narrow it down to a 'Get the latest' link.