From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCD7O-0008UK-T8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:50:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1N9nXPo010820; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:49:33 GMT Received: from baley.hq.boxuk.net (82-69-194-142.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.194.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1N9nTAe014951 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:49:32 GMT Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-web-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-web-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:49:26 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries Thread-Index: AcY4RuZfhtLlFF7gSzWTD6bUsK47HQAFsr+A From: "Stuart Herbert" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1N9nTAe014951 X-Archives-Salt: 4027d9c9-628d-43ba-953a-823df0a2a1e4 X-Archives-Hash: 97e07637681c156ccf12fac2d78c2a94 Mmm ... what are you trying to achieve here? a) /usr/share/js isn't served by any of our standard webserver installs; files you place in here aren't downloadable b) web-based apps will expect the javascript libraries to sit in a specific location under the htdocs directory c) different web-based apps will ship different versions of javascript libraries d) sooner or later, web-based apps will ship javascript libraries with their own modifications. we already get that behaviour with apps that ship bundled PEAR packages. e) The Gentoo philosophy is to remain as close to upstream as possible. Because we're a meta-distribution, and not a traditional distribution like Red Hat, the only time we try and change what UPSTREAM does is when we absolutely have to. I don't think we need to do anything here. Best regards, Stu -----Original Message----- From: Gunnar Wrobel [mailto:wrobel@gentoo.org] Sent: 23 February 2006 06:44 To: gentoo-web-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries >> I came across a php based webapp that includes a number of third party >> java script libraries (including MochiKit). Do we currently have any >> standardized way of handling such libraries? >> >> Are there any other webapps that include java script libraries? > > Not that I'm aware of. > Ok, then I'll just open up /usr/share/js and add a small eclass comparable to php-lib.eclass. -- Gunnar Wrobel Gentoo Developer __________________C_o_n_t_a_c_t__________________ Mail: wrobel@gentoo.org WWW: http://www.gunnarwrobel.de IRC: #gentoo-web at freenode.org _________________________________________________ -- gentoo-web-user@gentoo.org mailing list