On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 3:48 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> wrote:
On 4.8.2018 01:17, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This page
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:JavaScript
> is terribly outdated. Even when it was created years ago, IMO the advice
> was questionable. Today, it's definitely bad advice.
>
> Modern web applications use webpack for JavaScript. With webpack,
> JavaScript is minified and bundled, and sometimes assets are even
> injected. I realize bundling libraries is bad for an old-school
> RPM-based application. But no one packages JavaScript into RPMs (try to
> find react and friends), and the page is leading to confusion on my team.
>
> To prevent confusion, acceptable options would be: either simply
> deleting the page, or placing a giant "don't follow this outdated
> advice" banner at the top.

We don't generally do either of those. If the guidelines are outdated,
they need to to be updated, not deleted.

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Ok. Then I suggest this page be updated to roughly say client-side JavaScript should not be packaged in RPMs.

Best wishes,
Greg