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Re: Minified javascripts in packages



 ❦ 17 avril 2015 00:32 +0100, Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> :

>> Guess I'll have to start over again and figure out how to manually
>> concatenate the separate upstream files into one huge file. I can see
>> how it makes sense, but it also seems like a lot of work for very
>> little gain…
>
> So you propose to manually reimplement the needed build-time
> functionality, for which upstream expect to use grunt ?
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to package grunt ?  Forgive me if I've missed,
> in this thread, the explanation of why that's difficult.

Grunt alone is useless. You need to have a lot of plugins to do
something with it. Then, you have the dependencies of each plugins. You
may need to package and maintain dozens of NPM packages.
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