Shibboleth Developers

["Leif Johansson" <>]

have you considered reusing the jquery framework?

5 jan 2011 kl. 17:35 skrev "Rod Widdowson" 
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> Beta1 of the EDS ships with all the JavaScript as written.  This is quite 
> large (58k) and comes as 3 files (hence three HTML
> requests)
> 
> For later betas and production we are changing the distribution to be a 
> configuration JavaScript file and the a second JavaScript
> file consisting of the 3 source files munged together in some manner.  
> "Packer" seems to do quite nicely of the minification (down
> to 15k), but I'm not wedded to that.  The aim is to save download size and 
> HTML requests...  
> 
> My question is how to perform this packaging?  Right now I am hand 
> concatenating the JavaScript files and then shoving them up into
> one of the many minification web sites (for instance 
> http://dean.edwards.name/packer/).  This is cumbersome but effective, 
> although
> it leaves me slightly nervous about Trojans.
> 
> The aim is that eventually the EDS will be shipped with the Shibboleth SP 
> (and with any other SP what wishes to use it).  But I do
> not want to impose yet another tool on people who want to build the SP from 
> source.
> 
> At the other extreme is somehow seems wrong to check the output of the 
> minification process back into SVN (sort of like checking in
> the .class files as well as the .java ones).
> 
> A mid-point might have (qualified) minification tools checked in alongside 
> the JavaScript and have some sort of build script, but
> this is only slightly nicer than requiring the tool to be installed as part 
> of the SP build.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Rod
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