[Document list] How to expose its DLL?

[Reinmar]

Part of #11377.

The problem right now is that list's src/index.js exposes only the old list feature.

How can we expose document list's DLL?

Options:

Option 1. Add to ckeditor5-list/src/index.js

• Pros:
  • KISS
  • Will motivate us to sunset old lists faster ;)
• Cons:
  • Doubled size of the DLL (and you'll never use two of these features at once)
  • If we'll go this way, moving to opt 2 or 3 later on will be a BC

Option 2. Move entire DocLists to a new package

• Pros:
  • Clean
  • Optimal size
• Cons:
  • Both features depend on the same UI, so where would we keep it and how would we import it? Answer: we'd import from ckeditor5-list/src/....
  • What will we do once the old lists are sunset in the future?

Option 3. Create a new ckeditor5-document-list package just for the DLL

And have only src/index.js there. It'd import module directly from ckeditor5-list. We'd ignore the cross-package import rule there.

• Pros:
  • Smart
  • Optimal size
  • No issue with sharing the same UI
• Cons:
  • Slightly confusing (it's a workaround rather than a solution)

[wimleers]

Sounds like this should be decided/fixed tomorrow since otherwise this crucial aspect of CKEditor 5 v34.0.0 will not be available to Drupal? 😅

[Reinmar]

Unfortunately, we'll not be able to fix it by tomorrow. I know that it blocks you from testing this feature straight from npm, but it wasn't enough time for us to process this.

The good news may be that with options 2 and 3 we don't have to wait till the next release.

[Reinmar]

It's been an interesting discussion and it turns out that great majority of us are for the KISS option, so option 1. Let's do this and see if we can release a patched version ASAP.

[arkflpc]

DLL grew from 65705 to 92104 bytes (18122 to 24631 gzipped).