Re: RFS: protoaculous
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Michael Gilbert
<michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> wrote:
> New version using triggers uploaded:
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/protoaculous
Nice.
> Various debian packages already embed this, so its better to provide a
> system-wide version. Users should be free to make their own software
> choices (i.e. we shouldn't intentionally discourage any particular
> application just because there is a certain amount of dislike for it --
> let the best code win).
Not sure I agree here.
>> Looking at the postinst code, actually I'm wondering if a more
>> generalised solution would be useful. Instead of including lots of JS
>> files in a page, you could define "bundles" and dpkg would then
>> rebuild the bundles whenever you upgrade one of the libjs-* packages
>> in the bundle. This could go into javascript-common to allow the speed
>> advantages of protoaculous with more generality.
>
> I'm not really interested in actively persuing this approach, but if it
> were to become a standard, I would adopt it for this package.
I've filed bug #581708 on javascript-common, hopefully someone will
have time to implement it.
--
bye,
pabs
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