On Nov 1, 2012, at 19:40 , Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Simon Metson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> HI >> >> >> On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 18:32, Benoit Chesneau wrote: >> >>> Just to clarify. for what does grunt actually it would be pretty easy to >>> handle the same in any language. >> >> Indeed, but those tools don't exist _today_. We could write them and then >> work on futon or we could just work on futon. I prefer the latter. >> > > Do you need today to minify or concatenate files ? :) What will be the > other use of grunt? Also not saying that gruntjs at the end wouldn't be the > only solution to use. But I think it's really important to make sure it > won't increase too much the toolchain when it will be time to release it. > > > >>> My main concern today is the status of >>> nodejs in distrributions. For example latest ubuntu has the 0.6.19 where >>> the last versio is 0.8.14. Which can be problematic when we include it in >>> our toolchain. >> >> I'm using node 0.8.1 with grunt quite happily. >> > > well I meant what is available with ubuntu. I will check but I had to > install it by hand last time (or some can use a ppa I guess). Good point Benoit. We can decide to ship the compiled version until it is less of a pain, and then we can switch to making it a build dependency. Trade-offs and all. Either way though, don’t let this be in anyone’s way working on Futon. Cheers Jan --
