F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 10:34:12 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Björn Persson
<bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 07/16/2013 12:54 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>> > = Proposed System Wide Change: Web Assets =
>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Web_Assets
>>
>> Can we please use a different name, like "webdata"?  The term "asset"
>> seems to scare some people.
>
> At least the directory in /usr/share really should have "web" or
> something in the name. Someone who does "ls /usr/share" and sees
> "assets" won't understand that it's web related. In the URL namespace
> "web" isn't necessary, because in that context it's implicit.

Yeah, /usr/share/web-assets or so would be fine by me.

> "Data" isn't a good description of Javascript code and stylesheets
> though, even if it's just data from the HTTP daemon's point of view.
>
> How about "Web Libraries" and "/usr/share/weblib"?

I don't like that either.  CSS files aren't really "libraries".  ;-)

-T.C.


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