[openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

Matthias Runge mrunge at redhat.com
Tue Jan 13 17:01:15 UTC 2015


On 13/01/15 16:31, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2015-01-13 08:13:41 -0700 (-0700), Drew Fisher wrote:
> [...]
>> Why were the libraries ripped from the Horizon codebase in the
>> first place? It seems to me they belong with the code using it.
> 
> I disagree. If those libraries aren't developed as part of Horizon
> then they should not be copied into and distributed as part of its
> source tree. That's code duplication, plain and simple.
> 
> I'm in favor of cleaning out all the "vendoring" of third-party
> libraries in OpenStack projects, but agree that it would be nice to
> find a cross-platform/portable mechanism for handling them.
> 
Yes!

Keeping libraries separate, makes maintaining stuff so much easier.

You don't need to persuade me here. I completely agree.

Matthias



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