[ckan-dev] master and minified files

Mon Feb 25 13:36:28 UTC 2013

On 25 February 2013 09:29, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:

> The release process says that we update the minified files on release
> branches before a release, and these minified files then get merged back
> into master:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/Release-Process
>
> It says nothing about core extensions but I would guess the paster
> minify command in those instructions should be modified to include the
> core extensions too.
>

yeah this seems sensible that they follow the same logic as they are pretty
much part of core

>
> On 25/02/13 09:46, Toby Dacre wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This has been discussed before but I've forgotten if we agreed on
> anything.
> >
> > The issue is about the minified .js and .css files in ckan.
> >
> > My understanding is that following a bug with semicolons (why are we
> > using .js files by people who think semicolons are optional?) we are
> > updating minified vendor files when we update these libs.  Any ckan
> > minification (via paster) will ignore dirs called vendor and any sub
> dirs.
> >
> > `paster minify <path>` will minify a dir and it's sub dirs but ignore
> > 'vendor'
> >
> > issues
> >
> > do we include the minified files in non-release branches?
> > - personally I think we should but they should only get updated in
> > master - in much the same way as main.css
> > - some people have objected to this
> >
> > do we include the minified files in release branches?
> > - if we do this we have problems around .gitignore files (imho)
> >
> > we need to make sure the decision we make also takes core extensions
> > into account
> > - currently `paster front-end-build` only worries about ckan/public/base
> > - it also generates .css and some .js files used in translations
> >
> > It would be good to resolve this asap
> >
> > cheers
> >
> >
> >
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