Re: packaging Bootstrap for Cuirass' web interface

[Chris Marusich]

Björn Höfling <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:48:15 +0200
> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> 
>> We are going to embed Bootstrap files to our Cuirass service.
>> Wouldn't it be better to package Bootstrap and get the service to use
>> the package directly?  I think it would make maintenance easier, and
>> I'm unsure it's good to have huge files on which we don't have
>> control in our Cuirass git repository.  WDYT?
>> 
>> Clément
>
> Building from "source" would be cool, but looks like a lot of "fun":
>
> https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/build-tools/#tooling-setup
>
> Here is the npm build script. Look at the dev-dependencies:
>
> https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v4.0.0-beta.2/package.json
>
> NPM-Yogurt.
>
> I think the only change to go from sources is write your own simple
> build scripts and call your own SASS-compiler and JS minifier.

See also:

http://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-packaging-dystopia/
"Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella"

by Christopher Webber.  jQuery also appears to be a dependency of
Bootstrap (listed under Bootstrap's "peerDependencies").

It's quite a large Gordian knot.  I hope we can cut it someday!

-- 
Chris

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