[openstack-dev] [Horizon] the future of angularjs development in Horizon

Richard Jones r1chardj0n3s at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 21:26:10 UTC 2014


All the bower components I've used have included full source alongside any
minified versions.

On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 07:40 Fox, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov> wrote:

> Simply having a git repository does not imply that its source.
>
> In fact, if its considered compiled (minified), I'm thinking the debian
> rules would prevent sourcing from it?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
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> From: Donald Stufft [donald at stufft.io]
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> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] the future of angularjs
> development      in Horizon
>
> > On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2014-11-21 07:31:36 -0500 (-0500), Donald Stufft wrote:
> >> You can’t. Bower doesn’t have “traditional” packages where you take a
> >> directory and archive it using tar/zip/whatever and then upload it to
> >> some repo. Bower has a registry which maps names to git URLs and then
> >> the bower CLI looks up that mapping, fetches the git repository and then
> >> uses that as the input to the “look at metadata and do stuff with files”
> >> part of the package manager instead of the output of an un-unarchival
> >> command.
> >
> > This raises interesting free software philosophy/license
> > questions... how do I redistribute (or even examine) the "source" of
> > a bower-managed package? Is there a way without actually
> > reverse-engineering the toolchain?
>
> Well it’s a git repository, so you could just clone it and look at it.
>
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