On 4.8.2018 12:23, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 3:48 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 4.8.2018 01:17, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This page
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:JavaScript
> is terribly outdated. Even when it was created years ago, IMO the
advice
> was questionable. Today, it's definitely bad advice.
>
> Modern web applications use webpack for JavaScript. With webpack,
> JavaScript is minified and bundled, and sometimes assets are even
> injected. I realize bundling libraries is bad for an old-school
> RPM-based application. But no one packages JavaScript into RPMs
(try to
> find react and friends), and the page is leading to confusion on
my team.
>
> To prevent confusion, acceptable options would be: either simply
> deleting the page, or placing a giant "don't follow this outdated
> advice" banner at the top.
We don't generally do either of those. If the guidelines are outdated,
they need to to be updated, not deleted.
Ok. Then I suggest this page be updated to roughly say client-side
JavaScript should not be packaged in RPMs.
Feel free to propose a ticket at http://pagure.io/packaging-committee/
Best tickets include:
* draft guideline on the wiki and diff
* rationale (explained in detail, so even nonexperts in the given
domain (here JS) could get the reasoning behind it)
As for now, I personally don't like your idea, as it lacks some
explanation about what should the packager do if they need to package a
web application that uses client side JS.
For example: the app ships client side JS bundled, but minified.
Or: the app expects me to run npm install to get the client side JS.
etc...
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