[Pkg-javascript-devel] JavaScript in-browser program, packaged in Debian

[Jérémy Lal]

2017-08-23 8:50 GMT+02:00 Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>:

> Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org> writes:
>
> > I am interested in packaging for Debian some JavaScript code that is a
> > self-contained program.
> >
> > Such programs are designed, by their authors, to be downloaded to a
> > directory and loaded from there into the user's choice of browser.
>
> An example of such a work is “MuscleBook”, which “has no server and
> works completely offline” <URL:https://github.com/cfilipov/MuscleBook.net
> >.
>
> > To package such a program for Debian – into a hypothetical Debian
> > binary package ‘ipsum’ – I expect that installing that package will
> > give a command-line executable program, which launches and runs.
>
> So, I would expect after installing the hypothetical ‘musclebook’ Debian
> package, that a command such as ‘/usr/bin/musclebook’ is installed.
>
> Then, running ‘/usr/bin/musclebook’ at the command line invokes a new
> browser tab (or a new browser window is started) visiting the MuscleBook
> ‘index.html’.
>
> I understand how to install the files (to ‘/usr/share/musclebook/’, for
> example). What comes next is to work correctly with the Debian web
> browser convention, and have a command-line program load the file
> ‘/usr/share/musclebook/index.html’ in the currently-running browser.
>
> How would a Debian package do that nicely with our conventions?
>

xdg-open <filepath> ?

Jérémy
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