Add templated version of wiki href to link element in presets

[Vincent Privat]

By the way the script doesn't work anymore, I was unable to update the
strings for last release.

Le sam. 3 nov. 2018 à 16:40, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> a écrit :

> I normally don't edit compressed files.
>
> Your argument would be perfectly valid (well if we forget that the
> entries have to be parsed) if the URLs were stored in a separate file,
> as is, bloating a manually curated file, it is bonkers.
>
> Simon
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> Am 03.11.2018 um 16:33 schrieb Dirk Stöcker:
> > On Sat, 3 Nov 2018, Simon Poole wrote:
> >
> >> The current default preset has 12'214 lines of which roughly 5'564 are
> >> used for href attributes in the "link" element. I actually suspect that
> >> the number of lines used for the href entries is increasing faster than
> >> the actual preset content and it is only a matter of time before they
> >> will outnumber the rest. This makes the, already far too large file,
> >> larger than necessary and requires continuous maintenance of the entries
> >> for no good reason.
> >
> > This entries are maintained by an automatic script and most of the
> > data is compressed away to zero (remember, JAR is a zipped file format!)
> >
> >> If we used a template this could be reduced to 1'500 plus a couple of
> >> potential special cases. My suggestion would be to add a "template"
> >> attribute to the link element, with a placeholder {country} (or similar)
> >> for the two letter iso code plus the colon (including the colon makes
> >> adding a special entry for EN unnecessary).
> >
> > What you suggest is a more complex approach, which essentially strips
> > away the already perfectly compressible parts. Probably the additional
> > code required will outweight the save space. So that approach will
> > result in the opposite of the wanted goal.
> >
> > Ciao
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