> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Beal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Sep 13, 4:45 pm, "Priest, James (NIH/NIEHS) [C]"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This seems like a great
> > solution to having editable scripts in your repository but deploying
> > minimized scripts to production.
>
> Be careful with that, though, because minimization is a change to the
> source, which means that the source you test is NOT the source which
> you're uploading to your production environment. In working
> environments with strict QA controls in place (e.g. a bank), this type
> of "shortcut" would not be considered acceptable work practice.
>
> While minification/packing rarely leads to semantic changes in JS
> code, it does on occasion happen. It is easy to write code which might
> run in uncompressed form yet may not be correct once minification
> occurs (e.g., forgetting to add a semicolon after: var x = function()
> {...};).
Thanks for the info Stephan! I would run tests against the deployed
source but it's good to know this sometimes doesn't produce the same
code.
Jim
