[Development] Minified javascript libraries in Qt source code

Pau Garcia i Quiles pgquiles at elpauer.org
Fri Sep 27 18:12:32 CEST 2013


On 27-Sep-2013 11:55 AM, "Jonathan Riddell" <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> This also means we can't ship it in Ubuntu, preferred modifiable form is
a requirement for free software
>
> >  d) Ship the libraries unmodified from upstream and include a link to
where
> > they were obtained and where to obtain the non-minified sources.
>
> Pointing to somewhere else is not a valid way of providing a preferred
> modifiable form because the link might get new versions or disappear.

A good compromise is shipping both minified (for users) and unminified (for
distributions). That's what I'm doing with Wt in Debian.
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