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Re: RFS: protoaculous



On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:41:09 +0800 Paul Wise wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Michael Gilbert
> <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > libjs-protoaculous - A compressed library containing both prototype and scriptaculous
> ...
> > My motivation for maintaining this package is: many packages embed
> > protoaculous, which is poor practice from a security perspective.
> > This package will will provide a system version of protoaculous.
> 
> These two statements are the antithesis of each other, especially
> since prototype and scriptaculous are both already in Debian. How is
> this better than apps just depending on both of them?

web app developers like stuff to be fast, and i guess protoaculous is
quite a bit faster than prototype/scriptaculous.  quite a few packages
embed this, so it would be good to have a system version.

mike


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