Brice, This *seeems* like a simple matter.. although I have never tried it.
before jQuery is released it is 'built' from its component parts as seen here: http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jquery/ perhaps you could modify the build script to include only the items that you want. -- Elijah On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Brice Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've become accustomed to jQuery. Dependant on jQuery would be putting > it better. > > As such I had the idea of building a "packager" which would allow me to > customize a jQuery distribution to include only the functionality I need > for a project -- such as including the cross browser $.ready(), sizzle > selectors, manipulation functions, and attribute functions .... with > CSS, Events, Ajax, and Traversing abstracted out of the distribution. > > Something like YUI's Dependency Configurator; > [ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/hosting/?datatable#configure ] > > My initial thought is that perhaps this work has already been done > somewhere? > Does anyone else have a need for it? > Is it really unnecessary, as the "weight" of the base package is in > Sizzle and the jQuery core/internals? > > My goal would be to make a packager that allows you to select components > used... resulting in a lighter weight distribution. This distribution > should be name-spaced [e.g. $ = jQuery-myDist; ] to avoid collisions w/ > the potential existence of an introduced jQuery global object > (full-blown version of jQuery). > > Having metadata in the jQuery source comments to indicate dependencies > of every function would immensely help this particular endeavor -- but > could cut into maintainability. Eventually the packager could be > extended to include plugins. > > Any interest? > > ~ Brice > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
