On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:46 , Simon Metson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 11:35, Alexander Shorin wrote: > >> Because it's additional semi justified dependencies and whole project >> goes far away from couchapp concept, imho. > > I don't think it does. In fact I'd say it emphasises the flexibility of couch > apps and how they play nicely with other tools ("hey look, you can use this > database with the toolset I'm used to from jquery"). >> If Erica will be bundled tool out of CouchDB box, better to dance around him. > > I'd rather use something that exists today and evaluate erica when it is > included with CouchDB and has the necessary feature set in the future. > > With grunt we can get consistent build environments, with erica we'd either > have people installing tools (linters, less compiler, minify-ers etc) > manually/ad-hoc, have to rely on something like npm (and if we're doing that, > why not use grunt?) or build it ourselves (eurgh!).
In addition, we make this all more attractive for direly needed web-developer contributors. Major +1 on grunt + bbb. Cheers Jan --
