On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-06-15 at 09:28pm, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Right. At least it would be nice to use the same minifier tool than > > upstream in the hope to generate the same minified file then. > > I disagree. That would be comparable to using same C compiler with same > compile options (with less success for C than for JavaScript, probably).
Well, it's not exactly on the same scope, no. Minifying changes the "appearance" of the file, not its intrinsic nature. > As I understand it, the need for producing identical minification output > is only to ease identification of those files, which I believe is better > and more reliably done by hashing, with no ill sideeffects (e.g. some > minifiers sometimes produce broken output). I agree that hashing would be more reliable, but it's also much more work for everybody and the infrastructure doesn't exist yet... so I don't see why using the same minifier could not be a sane recommendation in the mean time. > Does it make sense now? Yes, thank you for the explanation. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
