On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:13:18 -0400, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
On 07/07/2009 12:50 PM, James Cammarata wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:21:59 -0400, Michael DeHaan<mdehaan(a)redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 07/07/2009 12:13 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/07/2009 12:09 PM, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Michael DeHaan<mdehaan(a)redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I think there is currently some annoying legal problem with the
>>>>> compressor
>>>>> that jQuery uses to make it "fast", so we would have to run
the
>>>>> uncompressed
>>>>> one though if we shipped it with Cobbler though ... grr! I'm
not
>>>>> sure
>>>>> how
>>>>> slow that would be, but it would be worth trying just to get the
>>>>> stylepoints.
>>>>>
>>>>> (FWIW, the way apps typically do the flash stuff is just a session
>>>>> variable
>>>>> making a DIV show up)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Legal problems? Seriously? Can you provide a link or some background
>>>> on this? Google isn't showing much from a cursory glance. If there
are
>>>> legal problems however, just use the yui
minimizer[1]. If there were
>>>> legal problems yahoo would have taken it down a very long time ago.
>>>>
>>>> [
1]http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'll follow up on this with Toshio and others and let you know.
>>>
>>> The problem was, IIRC, that the program to compress things was not
>>> permissible in Fedora.
>>>
>>> However that appears to imply BSD, so let me see what the hold-up was.
>>>
>>> --Michael
>>>
>>>
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>> It seems rhino prefered Sun's JRE but may now work. Apparently "dojo
>> shrinksafe" is also good.
>>
>> These tools aren't packaged for Fedora yet -- but should be -- in which
>> case it seems we can include compressed versions now provided we
include
>> links to the sources (and such) for GPL compliance reasons.
>>
>> Once Fedora has packaging guidelines we'll need to use the versions
that
>> ship with Fedora, leaving us somewhat subject to changing API
interfaces
>> and such.
>>
>> (Ah the niceness of just being able to say you are upstream...though we
>> have to work with what we have)
>>
>> So, given all that, it looks like we can include jQuery compressed
>> verisons and not do a lot of stuff ourselves. Which is, of course,
>> awesome.
>>
>> --Michael
>>
>
> Looking at the minimized version, it just looked like javascript with
all
> whitespace stripped. If there are legal ramifications for
that...
>
>
Also, was your (not committed yet) version using jQuery? If so, can you
commit it?
I want to start playing with this (and would right start now) but would
not want to cause conflicts with what you already had.
--Michael
No, I hadn't since it was a silly little example working right now. I can
commit it tonight when I get home though.
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