[tahoe-dev] help! how do I manage dependencies on JavaScript code?

[Kevin Reid]

On Sep 2, 2010, at 1:52, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:

> Folks:
>
> Brian wrote three patches for Tahoe-LAFS recently and so far I've only
> applied two of them to trunk. The third one doesn't change behavior or
> performance but adds beautiful, colorful JavaScript-based
> visualization of download behavior. I haven't applied it because it
> includes a copy of jquery and a copy of protovis. I don't like
> including copies of third-party libraries in our source tree.
...
> I also don't like adding hundreds of KB and tens of thousands of lines
> of code to our source tree, and neither do I like adding compressed
> (minified) things into our source tree instead of "the preferred form
> for modification", i.e. raw human-oriented source.

In my opinion, adding additional visualization of Tahoe operations is  
much more valuable than avoiding temporarily (until we find a good  
solution) violating this dependency management principle.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>