Re: Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella

2015-05-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
David Thompson skribis: > That's true, but we can't hope to have reproducible web applications if > we just ignore npm. IMO, we have to try, we have to come up with tools > to ease maintenance, and we have to do more outreach in the hopes that > we may convince *someone* outside of our circle th

Re: Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella

2015-05-02 Thread David Thompson
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > >> I'm not really sure what this means for Guix and libre web application >> in the future. I'd really like Guix to shine there... but this seems >> like a tough thing to overcome. > > Well, presumably ‘guix import npm’ would be a fi

Re: Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella

2015-05-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > I looked into trying to package jQuery, and it turned out to be quite > the challenge, much larger than I expected: > > http://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-packaging-dystopia/ Insightful post! > In short, this is another instance where per-language packag