bug#27049: [PATCH] gnu: Add mathjax.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Also, Arun: is this package really source code?  Or does it contain
>> “minified” code and also bundles all its dependencies (which would not
>> be okay)?
>
> Good question! I had assumed it was the full source code without
> checking carefully! I checked just now. The full source code is in the
> "unpacked" directory of the tarball. The code in the top level directory
> of the tarball is minified code. I think we should install only the
> minified code to share/javascript/mathjax/.

Yes, but we should treat minified code as “object code”: we’d remove it
in a snippet and then minify from source.

ISTR that the common minifiers depend on a lot of Node packages, so this
may be a can of worms.  Maybe Jelle or Chris or Dave know more?

> And, like Brendan said, we should separate the fonts into a font-mathjax
> package. And, these fonts should be symlinked into the js-mathjax
> package.

Agreed.

Thanks!

Ludo’.