Re: [PATCHv5 2/6] Gitweb: add support for minifying gitweb.css

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Mark Rada wrote:

On 10-04-13 6:30 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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On Tue, 13 April 2010, Charles Bailey wrote:

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On 01/04/2010 06:36, Mark Rada wrote:

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+gitweb.cgi: gitweb.perl $(GITWEB_JS) $(GITWEB_CSS)

I have a question about this last line of the patch. Are GITWEB_JS and 
GITWEB_CSS supposed to be a source path or a URI?

The documentation for install (and my previous assumption) was that they 
represented the path on the target web server. I'm used to overriding 
them so that gitweb.cgi can live in my /cgi-bin directory, but the 
static files are served from /gitweb which is readable but not executable.

After this patch I had to removed $(GITWEB_JS) and $(GITWEB_CSS) from 
the list of dependencies for gitweb.cgi otherwise make failed.

Have I got the wrong end of the stick?

Thanks a lot for noticing this bug.


GITWEB_JS and GITWEB_CSS were originally meant to be URI to file with
gitweb JavaScript code and default gitweb stylesheet,... but during work
on minification of JavaScript code and CSS file it somehow got confused
to mean source path.

If I remember correctly the original patch, before adding required
support for minified gitweb.js and gitweb.css to git-instaweb script,
and before support for CSS minification had

   ifdef JSMIN
   gitweb.cgi: gitweb.perl gitweb.min.js
   else
   gitweb.cgi: gitweb.perl
   endif

which should probably be replaced in current situation by

   ifdef JSMIN
   gitweb.cgi : gitweb.min.js
   endif
   ifdef CSSMIN
   gitweb.cgi : gitweb.min.css
   endif

just adding prerequisites to gitweb.css target in gitweb/Makefile


I guess that support for adding minifiction support to git-instaweb
would need to be more complicated. [...]

Aw, frig, never thought of using gitweb like that so I made some
assumptions to make things cleaner looking.

I think this can be fixed by just using different variable names? Or
perhaps some nested ifdef's? I'm not sure which will be better.

I wasn't at the computer today so I'm just getting to it now, I'll try
to have something when in the next day, going to bed now. Good night.

I think the best solution for prerequisites would be to have multiple 
target-only (without commands) rules, which according to make 
documentation would get concatenated.  This means the following code
in gitweb/Makefile:

    ifdef JSMIN
    gitweb.cgi : gitweb.min.js
    endif
    ifdef CSSMIN
    gitweb.cgi : gitweb.min.css
    endif

in place of

   gitweb.cgi: gitweb.perl $(GITWEB_JS) $(GITWEB_CSS)


For git-instaweb I think that best solution would be to introduce new
variables holding _source_ of gitweb JavaScript code and CSS, e.g.

            -e '/@@GITWEB_CSS@@/r $(GITWEB_CSS)' \

in place of

            -e '/@@GITWEB_CSS@@/r $(GITWEB_CSS_SOURCE)' \

...although GITWEB_CSS might mean something different for Makefile
and git-instaweb than for gitweb/Makefile and gitweb itself.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland