Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-23 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-01-23 12:02:19 +0100 (+0100), Matthias Runge wrote: [...] I think providing/updating distro packages is quite comparable to updating pypi packages. [...] Within an order of magnitude anyway. The difference is that most Python module upstream authors do their own packaging for PyPI (for

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-23 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-01-23 10:11:46 +0100 (+0100), Matthias Runge wrote: [...] It would be totally awesome to switch from pip install to using distribution packages for testing purposes. At least for dependencies. [...] While it seems nice on the surface, the unfortunate truth is that neither the infra

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-23 Thread Matthias Runge
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:18:46PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2015-01-22 16:06:55 -0500 (-0500), Matthew Farina wrote: [...] When there is an update to our requirements, such as the recent version increment in the version of angular used, a new package version doesn't automatically

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-23 Thread Matthias Runge
On 23/01/15 10:31, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2015-01-23 10:11:46 +0100 (+0100), Matthias Runge wrote: [...] It would be totally awesome to switch from pip install to using distribution packages for testing purposes. At least for dependencies. [...] While it seems nice on the surface, the

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Martin Geisler
Radomir Dopieralski openst...@sheep.art.pl writes: On 22/01/15 11:27, Martin Geisler wrote: Maybe this is a dumb question, but if there already is a system package for, say, Angular, why is the XStatic packge needed then? Could the system package for Horizon not just point directly to where

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 22/01/15 11:27, Martin Geisler wrote: Maybe this is a dumb question, but if there already is a system package for, say, Angular, why is the XStatic packge needed then? Could the system package for Horizon not just point directly to where the Angular package has put its files? Yes, that is

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 21/01/15 19:04, Matthew Farina wrote: Radomir, thanks for adding some clarity. I do have follow-on questions. In your example the packages are managed by xstatic. The proposal for horizon, as I understand it, is to move away from xstatic packages and instead use bower for development and

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Matthias Runge
On 22/01/15 09:48, Radomir Dopieralski wrote: All of the XStatic packages had to be packaged for the respective distributions in order to package Horizon. That was a lot of work, but it has been done my the packagers of the distributions. As far as I understand, most of those XStatic packages

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Martin Geisler
Matthias Runge mru...@redhat.com writes: On 22/01/15 09:48, Radomir Dopieralski wrote: All of the XStatic packages had to be packaged for the respective distributions in order to package Horizon. That was a lot of work, but it has been done my the packagers of the distributions. As far as I

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-01-22 11:53:10 -0500 (-0500), Matthew Farina wrote: Has anyone done an inventory of xstatic packages that are available as system packages? I ask because I started asking these questions after doing a cursory inventory and finding few xstatic packages as system packages. [...]

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Matthew Farina
Radomir and Matthias, Has anyone done an inventory of xstatic packages that are available as system packages? I ask because I started asking these questions after doing a cursory inventory and finding few xstatic packages as system packages. It appeared to me that the common case was the one

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Richard Jones
On Fri Jan 23 2015 at 4:28:59 AM Matthew Farina m...@mattfarina.com wrote: I would like to add one more nuance to this discussion that I don't remember seeing. JavaScript libraries run in web browser in their JavaScript engines (like v8) rather than on the server. A version of a JS library

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Matthew Farina
I would like to add one more nuance to this discussion that I don't remember seeing. JavaScript libraries run in web browser in their JavaScript engines (like v8) rather than on the server. A version of a JS library may be fine on a system, without any security issues, but contain browser issues.

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Matthew Farina
Jeremy, thanks for sharing this. I do have a couple more questions and comments based on this. When there is an update to our requirements, such as the recent version increment in the version of angular used, a new package version doesn't automatically show up as evident from that list. How would

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Matthew Farina
Richard, I'm quite familiar with node.js and browser development. I think some of the issue here may be a lack of detailed explanations and assumptions. By asking questions here I, and some others, have been learning details that we didn't know before. And, we're getting to follow from the intent

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-22 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-01-22 16:06:55 -0500 (-0500), Matthew Farina wrote: [...] When there is an update to our requirements, such as the recent version increment in the version of angular used, a new package version doesn't automatically show up as evident from that list. How would that process be kicked

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-21 Thread Matthew Farina
Radomir, thanks for adding some clarity. I do have follow-on questions. In your example the packages are managed by xstatic. The proposal for horizon, as I understand it, is to move away from xstatic packages and instead use bower for development and system packages (for example, debian, rpm, and

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-21 Thread Matthew Farina
Martin, django_compressor does handles creating aggregated and compressed files for you. This isn't quite the same as C programs because it's not just due to file size. For example, if you have 2 files many browsers will make two separate connections to get each file. That mean negotiating a

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-21 Thread Martin Geisler
Matthias Runge mru...@redhat.com writes: On 21/01/15 09:59, Martin Geisler wrote: This seems to imply that users will download at least one .js file per dependency. Not necessarily. We still use django-compressor, which copies all javascript into fewer files. E.g. here in my untweaked

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-21 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 20/01/15 20:58, Matthew Farina wrote: Radomir, maybe you can help me better understand where this would go. I have a few questions. First, can you point me to a time when horizon used system packages successfully for JavaScript libraries? When I looked through the Debian and Ubuntu

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-21 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 21/01/15 09:21, david.co...@oracle.com wrote: As for our work and updates, using system-wide packages is an excellent solution in this regard, as we get maintenance and updates for free. For instance, if there is a security issue in one of the JavaScript libraries, we don't need to patch

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-21 Thread Martin Geisler
Radomir Dopieralski openst...@sheep.art.pl writes: On 21/01/15 09:21, david.co...@oracle.com wrote: As for our work and updates, using system-wide packages is an excellent solution in this regard, as we get maintenance and updates for free. For instance, if there is a security issue in one of

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-21 Thread Matthias Runge
On 21/01/15 09:59, Martin Geisler wrote: This seems to imply that users will download at least one .js file per dependency. Not necessarily. We still use django-compressor, which copies all javascript into fewer files. E.g. here in my untweaked juno environment, I just get 3 instead of

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-21 Thread david . comay
As for our work and updates, using system-wide packages is an excellent solution in this regard, as we get maintenance and updates for free. For instance, if there is a security issue in one of the JavaScript libraries, we don't need to patch Horizon -- the patch that is prepared for that

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-20 Thread Matthew Farina
Radomir, maybe you can help me better understand where this would go. I have a few questions. First, can you point me to a time when horizon used system packages successfully for JavaScript libraries? When I looked through the Debian and Ubuntu packages I couldn't find the libraries horizon is

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-20 Thread Richard Jones
On Wed Jan 21 2015 at 7:00:12 AM Matthew Farina m...@mattfarina.com wrote: Radomir, maybe you can help me better understand where this would go. I have a few questions. First, can you point me to a time when horizon used system packages successfully for JavaScript libraries? When I looked

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-19 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 16/01/15 18:55, Matthew Farina wrote: Doug, there still is one open question. Distributing JavaScript libraries via system packages is unusual. Because of that, most of the JavaScript libraries used by horizon don't have existing packages. Who will create and maintain the packages for these

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-16 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Jan 15, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Michael Krotscheck krotsch...@gmail.com wrote: I think Oracle's got enough money to support Node.js on SPARC. How is money relevant here? Well, normally the argument I've received is We don't have the time/resources/insert-other-fiscally-motivated-reason

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-16 Thread Drew Fisher
On 1/16/15 9:08 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: We are, and as this conversation has veered off in a destructive direction, I think we should back up and look at the compromise Radomir posted [1] to see if that solves the original technical problem we all have. Does having the requirements

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Krotscheck
Does having the requirements specified in a JSON file, without requiring a specific build tool to install the files, solve the packaging, testing, and deployment issue on platforms where node.js isn’t supported natively right now? We only support what we test. Unless I missed something,

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-16 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Drew Fisher drew.fis...@oracle.com wrote: On 1/16/15 9:08 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: We are, and as this conversation has veered off in a destructive direction, I think we should back up and look at the compromise Radomir posted [1] to see if that solves the

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-16 Thread Matthew Farina
Doug, there still is one open question. Distributing JavaScript libraries via system packages is unusual. Because of that, most of the JavaScript libraries used by horizon don't have existing packages. Who will create and maintain the packages for these JavaScript libraries for production? For

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-16 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Jan 16, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Matthew Farina m...@mattfarina.com wrote: Doug, there still is one open question. Distributing JavaScript libraries via system packages is unusual. Because of that, most of the JavaScript libraries used by horizon don't have existing packages. Who will create

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Krotscheck
I think Oracle's got enough money to support Node.js on SPARC. How is money relevant here? Well, normally the argument I've received is We don't have the time/resources/insert-other-fiscally-motivated-reason to support/work on node. Ergo, money. But then, given Oracle's conduct around the

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-15 Thread Tihomir Trifonov
All we need is to have someone spend some time to make it possible to have a common meta files(configs, package descriptions, etc.) so that they can be interchangeable and used by both Bower and pip, e.g. some tool to sync changes made in one config and adding it to another. Then - whoever prefers

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-15 Thread Tihomir Trifonov
Ops, sent the prev mail before finishing it... 1. Development - all we need is versions of uncompressed js and css files. We can use bower or pip requirements to get specific versions. 2. Testing - we need to do first some 'uglify'-ing tasks, using pyscss or grunt and to run tests on that. Is is

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-15 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 14/01/15 23:05, david.co...@oracle.com wrote: I'm not particularly well-versed in the Horizon build process so perhaps I'm way off base. But given that a distribution's Horizon build package embeds various JavaScript libraries to be used by the browser, how those libraries are obtained

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-14 Thread Drew Fisher
On 1/14/15 11:49 AM, Michael Krotscheck wrote: Solaris is supported by node.js: x86 is certainly supported. Always has been. That's not the issue in question. My point was that SPARC is not supported. I think Oracle's got enough money to support Node.js on SPARC. How

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-14 Thread Michael Krotscheck
Solaris is supported by node.js: x86 is certainly supported. Always has been. That's not the issue in question. My point was that SPARC is not supported. I think Oracle's got enough money to support Node.js on SPARC. I think Solaris is no longer relevant I won't stoop to comment on

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-14 Thread david . comay
I won't stop to comment on this statement other than to say Javascript is quite relevant to Oracle, Oracle's customers, and Oracle's partners. Your argument is a boondoggle. Refusing to use node because your favorite platform doesn't support it is not the fault of node.js, it's the fault of the

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-14 Thread Drew Fisher
On 1/14/15 6:25 AM, Anton Zemlyanov wrote: Solaris is supported by node.js: x86 is certainly supported. Always has been. That's not the issue in question. My point was that SPARC is not supported. Solaris 32-bit Binary: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.35/node-v0.10.35-sunos-x86.tar.gz

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-14 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-01-14 17:25:46 +0400 (+0400), Anton Zemlyanov wrote: Solaris is supported by node.js: Solaris 32-bit Binary: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.35/ node-v0.10.35-sunos-x86.tar.gz Solaris 64-bit Binary: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.35/ node-v0.10.35-sunos-x64.tar.gz I believe the point

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-14 Thread Jason Rist
On 01/14/2015 09:14 AM, Matthew Farina wrote: I think we're discussing two different situations with slightly different requirements. First, there is development and test. I believe the stated goal is to have node.js here. Would an environment not supporting node.js be needed for

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-14 Thread Matthew Farina
I think we're discussing two different situations with slightly different requirements. First, there is development and test. I believe the stated goal is to have node.js here. Would an environment not supporting node.js be needed for development or testing? Note, the JavaScript under test and to

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-14 Thread Anton Zemlyanov
Solaris is supported by node.js: Solaris 32-bit Binary: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.35/node-v0.10.35-sunos-x86.tar.gz Solaris 64-bit Binary: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.35/node-v0.10.35-sunos-x64.tar.gz I think Solaris is no longer relevant On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Drew Fisher

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-14 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 13/01/15 16:13, Drew Fisher wrote: On 1/13/15 7:59 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2015-01-13 08:50:28 +0100 (+0100), Matthias Runge wrote: [...] But, as far as I understand, node.js will become a development requirement (and most probably a requirement for testing), but not for

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-13 Thread Matthias Runge
On 13/01/15 16:31, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2015-01-13 08:13:41 -0700 (-0700), Drew Fisher wrote: [...] Why were the libraries ripped from the Horizon codebase in the first place? It seems to me they belong with the code using it. I disagree. If those libraries aren't developed as part of

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-13 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-01-13 08:50:28 +0100 (+0100), Matthias Runge wrote: [...] But, as far as I understand, node.js will become a development requirement (and most probably a requirement for testing), but not for deployment. [...] A requirement for testing _is_ a requirement for deployment. If it's not

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-13 Thread Drew Fisher
On 1/13/15 7:59 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2015-01-13 08:50:28 +0100 (+0100), Matthias Runge wrote: [...] But, as far as I understand, node.js will become a development requirement (and most probably a requirement for testing), but not for deployment. [...] A requirement for testing

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-13 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-01-13 08:13:41 -0700 (-0700), Drew Fisher wrote: [...] Why were the libraries ripped from the Horizon codebase in the first place? It seems to me they belong with the code using it. I disagree. If those libraries aren't developed as part of Horizon then they should not be copied into

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-12 Thread Drew Fisher
On 12/18/14 6:58 AM, Radomir Dopieralski wrote: Hello, revisiting the package management for the Horizon's static files again, I would like to propose a particular solution. Hopefully it will allow us to both simplify the whole setup, and use the popular tools for the job, without losing

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-12 Thread Matthias Runge
On 12/01/15 21:53, Drew Fisher wrote: I know I'm very very late to this thread but can I ask why Bower? Bower has a hard requirement on Node.js which was removed as a dependency in Havana. Why are we reintroducing this requirement? For Solaris, a requirement on Node.js is especially

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-08 Thread Richard Jones
Thanks, Radomir. How much detail from this discussion should be captured in the blueprint? I'm afraid I'm more familiar with the Python PEP process. On Thu Jan 08 2015 at 11:38:57 PM Radomir Dopieralski openst...@sheep.art.pl wrote: On 06/01/15 01:53, Richard Jones wrote: I think the only

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-08 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 06/01/15 01:53, Richard Jones wrote: I think the only outstanding question is how developers and non-packagers populate the bower_components directory - that is, how is bower expected to be available for them? I think following the Storyboard approach is a good idea: isolate a

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-07 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 06/01/15 18:39, Lin Hua Cheng wrote: Radomir, The current version of Angular were using in Horizon still does not have cookie and mock packages: https://github.com/stackforge/xstatic-angular/tree/1.2.1.1/xstatic/pkg/angular/data We still need to do it the long way: 1. Update the

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-06 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 06/01/15 01:39, Tripp, Travis S wrote: What Radomir proposes looks like it would greatly ease the process I am still going through to get the latest angular available to Horizon for current development. At the time of writing this, I’m still trying to get the updated library through. I

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-06 Thread Lin Hua Cheng
Radomir, The current version of Angular were using in Horizon still does not have cookie and mock packages: https://github.com/stackforge/xstatic-angular/tree/1.2.1.1/xstatic/pkg/angular/data We still need to do it the long way: 1. Update the Angular version in global-requirements 2. Wait

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-06 Thread Tripp, Travis S
Thanks, Radomir. I originally started a patch on Horizon and was going to do that, but was guided to update global requirements first. I¹ll go ahead and redo that patch on Horizon. -Travis On 1/6/15, 2:00 AM, Radomir Dopieralski openst...@sheep.art.pl wrote: On 06/01/15 01:39, Tripp, Travis S

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-05 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 05/01/15 00:35, Richard Jones wrote: On Mon Dec 22 2014 at 8:24:03 PM Radomir Dopieralski openst...@sheep.art.pl mailto:openst...@sheep.art.pl wrote: On 20/12/14 21:25, Richard Jones wrote: This is a good proposal, though I'm unclear on how the static_settings.py file is

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-05 Thread Richard Jones
On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 7:59:14 PM Radomir Dopieralski openst...@sheep.art.pl wrote: On 05/01/15 00:35, Richard Jones wrote: On Mon Dec 22 2014 at 8:24:03 PM Radomir Dopieralski openst...@sheep.art.pl mailto:openst...@sheep.art.pl wrote: On 20/12/14 21:25, Richard Jones wrote:

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-05 Thread Tripp, Travis S
-To: OpenStack List openstack-dev@lists.openstack.orgmailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Date: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 2:08 AM To: OpenStack List openstack-dev@lists.openstack.orgmailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/ On Mon

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-05 Thread Richard Jones
@lists.openstack.org Date: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 2:08 AM To: OpenStack List openstack-dev@lists.openstack.orgmailto:openstack -d...@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/ On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 7:59:14 PM Radomir Dopieralski openst

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2015-01-04 Thread Richard Jones
So just to be clear, as developers we: 1. have a bower.json listing the bower component to use, 2. use bower to fetch and install those to the bower_components directory at the top level of the Horizon repos checkout, and 3. manually edit static_settings.py when we add a new bower component to

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2014-12-22 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On 20/12/14 21:25, Richard Jones wrote: This is a good proposal, though I'm unclear on how the static_settings.py file is populated by a developer (as opposed to a packager, which you described). It's not, the developer version is included in the repository, and simply points to where Bower is

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2014-12-20 Thread Richard Jones
This is a good proposal, though I'm unclear on how the static_settings.py file is populated by a developer (as opposed to a packager, which you described). Richard On Fri Dec 19 2014 at 12:59:37 AM Radomir Dopieralski openst...@sheep.art.pl wrote: Hello, revisiting the package

[openstack-dev] [horizon] static files handling, bower/

2014-12-18 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
Hello, revisiting the package management for the Horizon's static files again, I would like to propose a particular solution. Hopefully it will allow us to both simplify the whole setup, and use the popular tools for the job, without losing too much of benefits of our current process. The