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

Radomir Dopieralski openstack at sheep.art.pl
Thu Jan 8 12:37:18 UTC 2015


On 06/01/15 01:53, Richard Jones wrote:
> I think the only outstanding question is how developers and
> non-packagers populate the bower_components directory - that is, how is
> bower expected to be available for them?
> 
> I think following the Storyboard approach is a good idea: isolate a
> known-working node/bower environment local to horizon which is managed
> by tox - so to invoke bower you run "tox -e bower <command>". No worries
> about system installation or compatibility, and works in the gate.
> 
> Horizon installation (whenever a pip install would be invoked) would
> then also have a "tox -e bower install" invocation.
> 
> Storyboard[1] uses a thing called nodeenv[2] which is installed through
> pip / requirements.txt to control the node environment. It then has
> bower commands in tox.ini[3] (though I'd just have a single "bower"
> environment to implement the tox command I suggest above.
> 
>  
>      Richard
> 
> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StoryBoard
> [2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nodeenv
> [3] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/storyboard-webclient/tree/tox.ini
> 

I created a blueprint for this.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/static-file-bower
-- 
Radomir Dopieralski




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