Dependency Management and jQuery building
jQuery core team,
I was very excited to hear about a possible jQuery mobile. Keeping
file size small is always a concern, and it will be useful for non-
mobile projects as well.
Further, I don't like having to build every time I make a change in
trunk, but then see a giant single file when debugging.
Are you interested in starting this work now? I'd like to change
jQuery's build to use something similar to JMVC's.
It works by using env.js+rhino to load an html page, find each script
tag, and join their contents.
I'd make each file in /src work independantly (meaning surrounding it
with its own (function(){ ... })() with the vars like document,
rootQuery, undefined, etc.
But when building the single file, each file in /src would have
commented if-defs removing those parts.
The big bonus for the core guys would be developing with logically
separated files and not having to build each time. I promise a
3.14159% speed up in core development.