On 7/16/13, Joe Orton <jorton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 09:32:12AM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> And some guidelines for the other various shareable bits that aren't >> JavaScript: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Patches/PackagingDrafts/Web_Assets > > I strongly agree with Remi that in general it is better to be using a > webserver-level "Alias" (i.e. a URL -> filesystem mapping) to bring > shared "assets" within a webapp-specific URL space. i.e. Alias > /myapp/some.js to /usr/blah/some.js This is totally fine; the draft guidelines explicitly permit this. But if your webapp has a lot of JS dependencies adding a million Alias lines to your apache config can be just as painful as forcing it to use the shared URL space. Keep in mind that many webapps/frameworks let you specify URLs for JS and such in their config (e.g. to support CDNs like googleapis.com) so both approaches could be equally easy/hard to implement depending on what you're doing. In those cases whether you have /etc/httpd/conf.d/myapp.conf with: Alias /myapp/js/jquery.js /usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery-min.js Alias /myapp/js/jquery-ui.js /usr/share/assets/jquery-ui/js/jquery-ui-min.js or /usr/share/myapp/config.php with: $js['jquery'] = "/_assets/javascript/jquery/jquery-min.js"; $js['jquery-ui'] = "/_assets/jquery-ui/js/jquery-ui-min.js"; is really just a matter of taste. > Patching webapps *right down to content level* to enforce our particular > choice of URL space sounds like a maintenance nightmare. Again, I have no intention of forcing people to use the shared URL space. It's just another option for those who want it. > If we really must pollute the URL space with fixed common locations for > shared assets then we should definitely not use a generic name like > "/assets". We should minimize interference with the URL space. > "/.assets" "/.packaged-assets" "/_packaged_assets/" or something like > that. The previous guidelines draft called for every JS library under the sun to take it's own path in the URL space. (/jquery, /jquery-ui, and so on). I figured the One Directory to Rule Them All was a great improvement on this. I don't particularly care what the directory ends up being. If you as the httpd maintainer would prefer it to be dot or underscore-prefixed I'd be happy to amend the guidelines to reflect that. (Dot-prefixing seems a little weird in this case as the directory really isn't "hidden", but an underscore seems fine to me.) -T.C. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
