Re: Maven community maintaining popular JS lib deps? (was: Re: downloading JavaScript libraries)

[Jesse Farinacci <ji...@gmail.com>]

Greetings,

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Manos Batsis
<ma...@geekologue.com> wrote:
>
> The only reason to package those javascript files in JARs and upload them to
> the maven central repo is for other projects to reuse them as dependencies.
> I don't think this is your case.

This definitely wasn't what he asked to do, and you were right to
answer him directly. I answered the question that I think he *should*
have asked.. ;-) Perhaps complicating things far too much..

> On the other hand and since most javascript projects do not produce maven
> dependencies for the maven users out there, it might make sense to establish
> a community in this list to maintain popular JS lib dependencies.
>
> Some questions to list members:
>
>  - Does it sound like a good idea and why?
>  - How should we go for it in organizing a team of maintainers?
>  - How should those JS libs packaged?

There's already a javascript project on codehaus[1], I am surprised
that they do not already publish Maven artifacts for popular
frameworks. I'd recommend publish them in a variety of formats:

 * maven-remote-resource-bundle
 * jar
 * war

The first could be used to seed the second and third. Let the users
choose for themselves which works best for them..

-Jesse

[1] http://mojo.codehaus.org/javascript-maven-tools/

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