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

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> skribis:

> 2017-05-29 11:34 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> The minifiers I use for work are usually designed as a plugin in a bigger
> node packages, so they suffer from the bootstrap problem lots of node
> packages have if you want to build them from source.
> Maybe we could look for a smaller, standalone minifier package that we
> could use for all minification needs in guix? I always used uglify-js from
> before my guix days, so I am not sure how workable it would be to package.

What smaller, standalone minifier would you suggest?  :-)

Ludo’.