2015-04-13 11:37 GMT+02:00 Philip Hands <p...@hands.com>: > Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >> >>> Right, I wasn't clear enough: I'm saying that despite all the other >>> non-JavaScript cases brought up later in the thread, the requirement >>> (build from source form, with only build dependencies also in Debian) >>> applies just fine to JavaScript libraries. >>> >>> Can we agree on that? >> >> As I have seen instances where the JavaScript was built by web >> services, I'd say the real world is much too complicated to even agree >> on that. > > I presume that we can agree that, if someone started offering a web > service compiling C code with output an order of magnitude better in > every dimension than gcc can achieve, we still wouldn't use it for our > binaries (at least not unless it were available as free software that we > could host ourselves). What makes JavaScript worthy of special treatment? > > Is it not the case that the JavaScript minification that started this > thread is just an optimisation? Surely the source would work fine > without minification?
Do not forget concatenation of many files to a single lib. Not doing that can result in the client having many many files to load, and that's way more unacceptable than without minification. Jérémy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAJxTCxz8g2Qa08PNGAUikqUB=mtwgqb+kqj+wxcvve+kgdc...@mail.gmail.com
