[ckan-dev] Use git submodules to manage recline in CKAN

Fri Apr 13 08:50:25 UTC 2012

On 13 April 2012 00:10, David Raznick <kindly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> Have anyone tried fanstatic?
> http://www.fanstatic.org/en/0.11.2/index.html
>
> It essentially lets you put your js/css dependencies in a python package
> and it will inject it into your html for you and serve them. It already has
> packages on pypi for things like backbone and bootstrap.  Adding a recline
> package on pypi would seem to make sense and would be generally good to do
> anyway.
>
> i think i really really don't like this.  We do need a better solution but
this feels wrong.  Maybe someone will persuade me it's all great though :)

toby

It may be a heavyweight solution but I think it would also work much better
> for the current way we do our dependencies and debian packaging. It also
> will do our minifying, cache invalidation for us and easy config to switch
> them off for development.  I am not sure how will in works for subdomains
> and not root script paths though.
>
> I have not used it and am slightly wary of another dependency but it seems
> like exactly what is needed.
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg <
> friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> we're using them in OpenSpending and they are clearly the right solution
>> in theory. In practice, keeping them in sync, making sure they get deployed
>> when necessary and explaining them to people who just want to play with
>> your codebase has proven a horrible PITA.
>>
>> I think we're now moving to a model where the URL of that sub-component
>> is configurable (openspendingjs, as openspending.script_root in the .ini)
>> so people can either check it out into pylons' public/ directory or just
>> set another path (I have apache running locally and share my code root on
>> localhost). The nice side-effect of this is that it forces you to use url
>> builder helpers for assets, so you get asset subdomains, cache-bombing etc.
>> for free.
>>
>> - Friedrich
>>
>> On Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Adrià Mercader wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I don't have many experience with them, but Rufus mentioned that it
>> may be worth using git submodules to manage external repos in CKAN
>> source, like recline.
>>
>> I had a quick look and they look quite useful, and I think we are
>> already using them for some docs theme repo. Has anyone any
>> experience, reservations, thoughts about them?
>> Will they affect the deployment, packaging process?
>>
>> Adrià
>>
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