> On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > > On 2014-11-21 07:31:36 -0500 (-0500), Donald Stufft wrote: >> You can’t. Bower doesn’t have “traditional” packages where you take a >> directory and archive it using tar/zip/whatever and then upload it to >> some repo. Bower has a registry which maps names to git URLs and then >> the bower CLI looks up that mapping, fetches the git repository and then >> uses that as the input to the “look at metadata and do stuff with files” >> part of the package manager instead of the output of an un-unarchival >> command. > > This raises interesting free software philosophy/license > questions... how do I redistribute (or even examine) the "source" of > a bower-managed package? Is there a way without actually > reverse-engineering the toolchain?
Well it’s a git repository, so you could just clone it and look at it. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
