[Pkg-javascript-devel] documentation about distributing minified versions of files

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 05/08/2013 07:29 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> There are two different needs :
> 
> 1) packaged webapp that depends on libjs-* package
> 
> 2) user project that depends on libjs-* package.
> 
> 
> For 1) your suggestion would work, but it wouldn't for 2).

Why not?  I don't see what problems it causes for that scenario.

> Something that would work for 2) is user Makefile that helps
> setup symlinks or copies of the packaged files. Symlinks if the user
> wants to be able to upgrade the files along with packages upgrades,
> copies if he doesn't. In both cases it's up to a user script to
> install minified/unminified version, possibly renaming the files and so
> on.

this sounds like we would be encouraging a maintenance nightmare.  what
if the user adds a new script or a new symlink manually to the same
directory, and then re-runs the makefile hook to bring the external
dependencies "up to date" or to switch from minified to non-minified?
for people who deploy their code from (signed) tags in a VCS, do they
have to have a new tag at each deployment that re-runs this hook to
adjust the links, thereby diverging from their VCS checkout?

> But if the user has to install libjs-jquery or libjs-jquery-minified
> each time, it is a painful process.

why is this painful?  During development, you install libjs-jquery
alongside whatever other development tools, libraries, frameworks your
user project depends on.  your user project links to the
/usr/share/javascript/jquery directory, whose contents are provided by
libjs-jquery.

In deployment, the sysadmins install libjs-jquery-minified on the live
server instead.  this installs minified files in
/usr/share/javascript/jquery .  the user project does not change at all.

Regards,

	--dkg

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