F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:23 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth
> <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Debian already uses /usr/share/javascript for this purpose, and it
>> would be really nice if we both could coordinate on getting some
>> upstream support for this in certain cases.  I'm very strongly -1
>> against pointless Fedoraisms here.
>
> Speaking of Fedoraisms, could we please serve Javascripts through
> "/javascripts" ? Debian already has a long precedent of doing this.
> I'm concerned that if Fedora invents "_sysassets", we're setting
> ourselves up to make the upstream advocacy task that you mentioned
> much harder.

I wasn't aware Debian already exported a directory for this.  (But
"/javascripts", really?)  It would be nice if they wrote that into
their policy.

We still need something for CSS frameworks and such, but maybe we
could drop the underscore and have:
/sysassets/ -> for CSS, theming, etc.
/javascripts/ -> for JS

The httpd maintainer would really prefer if we didn't use something
that could potentially conflict as easily as "/javascripts" though.
Not sure if "Debian does it" is a good enough reason to override
that...

> Speaking as a web app package maintainer, I think this policy has
> great intentions, and I think there's advantages to following Debian's
> URL precedent.

-T.C.