> Minification is quite comparable to compilation. I will give you some > examples from my frustration with Drupal8 in this answer. This can no > longer be seen as source code: > ... I disagree, it is not maintainable source code, yes, but source code nonetheless. According to wikipedia source code is: In computing, source code is any collection of computer instructions, possibly with comments, written using[1] a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text. I guess minified source code does qualify. However, this discussion is mood since the bigger lies in the modules that get included without any real documentation. > And it's far from the ugliest example I can quote. Of course, I > needed > to ship sources for all of them - Take a look at: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/drupal8.git/tree/deb > ian/missing-sources/README > > And, of course, think about the huge diff that is to be created for > all of the files in debian/missing-sources. Agreed this is ugly and I'm all in if we can find a better solution. but just not having all these applications does not strike me as a better solution. > Take this as an example of what is needed for a moderately complex > PHP > webapp with lots of JS in it: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/drupal8.git/tree/deb > ian/copyright > > Of course, it was all hand-generated and validated. And your point being? > But packaging the precise version that is required in each little > bump > is just impossible. I get your point, I just don't accept the consequence that we should not package these applications. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
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