bug#27049: [PATCH] gnu: Add mathjax.

[Jelle Licht]

2017-05-29 11:34 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:

Arun Isaac <address@hidden> 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