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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 22:00:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj5nk7bf.fsf@earlgrey.lan> (raw)

Hello,

I looked into trying to package jQuery, and it turned out to be quite
the challenge, much larger than I expected:

  http://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-packaging-dystopia/

In short, this is another instance where per-language packaging has
helped things grow to a fairly insane state.  I'm not sure how we can
ever get jQuery packaged.  This is a shame, because many free software
web applications (including MediaGoblin) depend on it.  To make matters
worse, I'm sure nearly all modern javascript libraries are like this.

I'm not really sure what this means for Guix and libre web application
in the future.  I'd really like Guix to shine there... but this seems
like a tough thing to overcome.

 - Chris

             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-02  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-02  3:00 Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2015-05-02 13:34 ` Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-02 15:24   ` David Thompson
2015-05-02 18:24     ` Ludovic Courtès

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