[Dynapi-Dev] CVS Partially Updated with Makefile

[Dan S. <dy...@fu...>]

I've contributed my Makefile into the CVS, along with updating the /api/ and /util/ files with semi colons (that's enough ;'s for one night).

The JSPack util that is needed to build the compressed DynAPI is released separately:

http://www.dansteinman.com/jspack/

Also, I SERIOUSLY recommend removing the /js/ directory altogether.  We don't want people submitting changes to the files in /js/ because that is the directory that is automatically created by the makefile.

The examples need to be updated to point to /src/.  Also it would be good to ensure that all the examples use the DynAPI include() so that the switch from /src/ to /js/ is a one line change.

The DynAPI packages that are created by the makefile/jspack will not work correctly yet.  If there is even one line that does not have a semi colon in the right spot nothing will work.

The Makefile produces a duplicate copy of the /src/ tree with all the .js files compressed.  It also creates .js packages of all the files in the subdirectories(eg /lib/dynapi.api.js) as well a "all" package which contains everything.  It goes one step further to Jar and Gzip those package files.

As I mentioned earlier the significant semi colon to look for is in this case:

method = function() {

};  // it occurs in event listeners and every prototype in the DynAPI

Also it's better now to never do one line methods like:

obj.prototype.method=function() {code}

Just because it's not easy to spot where the ;'s go:

obj.prototype.method=function() {code;}; // better to unwrap this

The files that need to be updated with semi colons are in /gui/ and /ext/.  At that point we should be able to build and a working compressed DynAPI.  It's really quite a dramatic compression.  From 100Kb of code down to 15Kb Jar and Gzip = 85%.  Pretty darned cool if I say so.

Robert will you be able to use jspack on the sourceforge server for cron jobs?

Let me know of any problems,
Dan