Re: Oh god, my eyes (packaging a hairball of bundled PHP stuff, tt-rss)
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:23:56AM -0700, Jorge Gallegos wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:46:36PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 07:52 +0200, Remi wrote:
> > >From :
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system...
> >
> > "At this time JavaScript intended to be served to a web browser is
specifically exempted from this but this will likely change in the future."
> >
> > This explain why so much .js libraries are bundled in so much wedapps.
>
> Ah, thanks. I missed that. Still, it seems bad to be duplicating some
> very popular js quite so much:
>
Actually, it makes perfect sense. Different frameworks release versions with
different versions of jQuery or prototype. Trying to force all those packages
to play nice with a single system-wide library is hell.
Just imagine the scenario where, say, rails wants to ship version 1.1.5 but
there's a security patch in Django that relies on 1.2.1 and they are not backwards
compatible.
You could make the same argument for any library, and it would be just
as wrong.
Benefits from packaging Javascript once:
- if there's a security problem, you just have to fix and update
one package
- no questions about "is the security problem fixed in <this random
javascript file>"?
- we can probably arrange it so that users of different web apps
only download the javascript file once
- no extra copies on disk
Rich.
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