2017-05-29 11:34 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès : > Arun Isaac skribis: > > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > >> Also, Arun: is this package really source code? Or does it contain > >> “minified” code and also bundles all its dependencies (which would not > >> be okay)? > > > > Good question! I had assumed it was the full source code without > > checking carefully! I checked just now. The full source code is in the > > "unpacked" directory of the tarball. The code in the top level directory > > of the tarball is minified code. I think we should install only the > > minified code to share/javascript/mathjax/. > > Yes, but we should treat minified code as “object code”: we’d remove it > in a snippet and then minify from source. > > ISTR that the common minifiers depend on a lot of Node packages, so this > may be a can of worms. Maybe Jelle or Chris or Dave know more? > The minifiers I use for work are usually designed as a plugin in a bigger node packages, so they suffer from the bootstrap problem lots of node packages have if you want to build them from source. Maybe we could look for a smaller, standalone minifier package that we could use for all minification needs in guix? I always used uglify-js from before my guix days, so I am not sure how workable it would be to package. > > And, like Brendan said, we should separate the fonts into a font-mathjax > > package. And, these fonts should be symlinked into the js-mathjax > > package. > > Agreed. > > Thanks! > > Ludo’. > > - Jelle