[aerogear-dev] AeroGear.js and Bower

Lucas Holmquist lholmqui at redhat.com
Thu Dec 20 12:48:06 EST 2012


On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Dec 20, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> So thanks to Luke we have included the latest tag of AeroGear.js in the Bower registry. This allows app developers to include AeroGear in their projects easily through that package management system or via other tools like Yeoman.
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>>> The issue is our tags include our entire repo and since Bower basis what it includes in someone's project by what is in the tag, our entire repo gets dropped in the user's project which I'm sure not too many people will be happy about.
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>> just wanted to point out that it only will pull the tag if specified, but since our tag and repo are the same at this point it's the same
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>>> I noticed that jQuery has a separate repo for Bower so that only the dist files are included but Luke pointed out that Backbone drops in the whole repo so it doesn't seem like there is a "standard" yet.
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>>> I would vote that we create another repo, aerogear/aerogear-js-bower (or something like that) so that our users that use Bower can include the files without worrying about gitignoring our entire repo from the included component.
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>> A separate repo could be good since it will only give them what they need. but if we did give them the whole repo, then they could do a custom build if they wanted to
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> True, but if you wanted to do a custom build you would probably just clone the repo and do it that way rather than using bower to pull it into your app and then do a build.

this is true

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