On 2020-02-16 at 10:42, Inaki Malerba wrote: > Why should I include the non-minified version? For reading purposes? > Never thought of it but makes sense.
As I understand it: for editing purposes. The principle is that the source package should include the form of the source which is preferred for making modifications to that source, or to put it more briefly, the "preferred form for modification". (Some people seem to say "of" instead of "for", but that doesn't really mean anything that would make sense in the context.) Otherwise, the recipient can't modify the source with the same facility as upstream can, whether for forking purposes (including just making a local modification to the package, without reference to any non-packaged code) or to create patches for submitting upstream. In the case of minified JS, it's a rare case in which someone prefers to edit a minified form rather than the less compact and more verbose form which gets passed through a minifier at build time, and even rarer for someone who doesn't prefer that to be willing to accept patches written against the minified form. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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