[Pkg-javascript-devel] Debian javascript URLs

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (2013-08-22 05:23:17)
> > It doesn't make any sense to me to hardcode a filesystem path into 
> > applications written in dynamic languages that you'll never be able 
> > to just open with Firefox anyway.  There's a reason there's a 
> > separate namespace for content served over HTTP.
> 
> Jonas' argument to just use the filesystem hierarchy for select 
> directories is tempting (and feels logically the most satisfying), but 
> i suspect the complaints (about URL length and panic about exporting 
> /usr) that the fedora folks are trying to address or head off will be 
> real enough, even if they're not logical.

Please let's discuss those two issues separately.

URL length
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I did not propose to use /usr/share/javascript (that was only an 
example) but to use whatever is the actual path on each system.

The length of the URL depends on the actual path - and if we 
(coordinated or as single distro) choose to not care about FHS then it 
could indeed be quite short.


panic about exporting /usr
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I did not mean to imply re-exporting /usr (but can see how that was not 
at all clear from what I wrote - sorry!).

What I meant was to export only the parts we actually need to share, 
just as we do today.

I would want the "root path" to still be configurable, just as it is 
today, to allow sysadmins to e.g. optionally install a package that 
re-uglifies javascript (either due to some preference in quality of 
uglifier, or add some salt to to work against the host being easily 
identified as a certain release of Debian through fingerprinting).

Trying to not look like generic Debian is a *different* interest of some 
of our users, which clashes with the interest of Debian hosts being able 
to form a CDN (which requires all participating hosts to serve same 
files, and therefore being able to match by patterns).


 - Jonas

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