Fine-tune file dependencies

[guest]

As it stands, the dependencies between different dojo files are pretty broad and cause a lot of download grief for anyone that wants to use some simple dojo functionality in their system. A simple example would be if I wanted to use *just* the InlineEditBox?:

dojo.require("dojo.widget.InlineEditBox?");

This would in turn, cascade to the following dependencies:

dojo.require("dojo.widget.*"); dojo.require("dojo.event.*"); dojo.require("dojo.lfx.*"); dojo.require("dojo.gfx.color"); dojo.require("dojo.string"); dojo.require("dojo.html.*"); dojo.require("dojo.html.layout");

Which would in turn cascade to many others. To make it easy to comprehend, creating a custom build with just the inline editbox:

var dependencies = [

"dojo.widget.InlineEditBox?"

];

load("getDependencyList.js");

creates a *compressed* dojo file of 180kb!!! This is a killer on public internet website projects.

Dojo is great stuff, but hopefully dependencies will be fine-tuned and reduced considerably so that the internet public can really benefit from dojo without the bloat aspect.

[Adam Peller]

This is being addressed in the 0.9 rewrite. If there are specific dependencies or profiles which are excessively large, please open a ticket with specific info.