[Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript library versioning

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On 12-06-14 at 05:40pm, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>> We should just treat JavaScript libraries exactly the same way we
>> treat C/C++ libraries, with soversions and all. That makes multiple
>> runtime versions co-installable and co-dependable, which would solve
>> the problem.
>
> How to resolve the SO-name for JavaScript?

By full path. I. e. instead of:

/usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.js

let's have:

/usr/share/javascript/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.js

Which is actually the same thing the Google CDN does:

https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js

Then the package would be libjs-jquery56 instead of just libjs-jquery,
as we do for C/C++ libraries.

At the beginning we would need to maintain sonames ourselves but with
time, I'm sure we will be able to teach upstream about sonames, even
better. I've done that for 2 C++ libraries (libmsn and Wt) in the past
few years and it's been working fine for a long time already.

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)