On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018, 21:12 Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > Why does this need to be included at all? Why not just provide a > pointer > > to > > > the canonical minified version? > > > > Most common occurrence (off the top of my head) is a minified version of > > bootstrap for project site / documentations. So your view is that that > > shouldn’t be included in a source release? > > > > Sure. D3 and jQuery will wind up in the same boat. > > I would not go so far as to emphatically say not to include them, but I > don't see the real need to include them given that they are so easily > downloadable. A URL and a checksum keeps the distro clean. > Point to a CDN instead of copying into the distro? On the one hand, one can argue a CDN is bad if someone wants to read offline. On the other, I don't like being added to the security update chain if there is an issue in D3/jQuery/bootstrap etc. Hen
