[Lizmap] Changes about how to contribute to lizmap, or to install a development version from Git

[Paolo Cavallini]

thanks for the update, nice move, good to see some claenup
cheers

Il 31/01/20 15:13, Laurent Jouanneau ha scritto:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> If you try regularly (or want to try), the development version of Lizmap
> 3.4 (master branch of the repository), you have to know that there are
> some changes, on how to install the source code of Lizmap.
> 
> We started to change how we develop our javascript files, and how we
> install dependencies (external PHP and Javascript libraries). We started
> to use some tools:
> 
>   * Composer to use external PHP libraries (instead of to include them
>     directly into our source code)
>   * Npm and Webpack to install JS dependencies and build our Javascript
>     code.
> 
> So, we started to remove existing dependencies from the repository, and
> new javascript files resulting from the build are not included into the
> repository (those files may be too big in the future, when we'll start
> to use recent version of OpenLayer for example).
> 
> The consequences of this new development workflow, is that the source
> code in the master branch of the repository of Lizmap-web-client, is not
> usable directly as it was in previous branches.
> 
> So :
> 
>   * if you just want to test an unstable version of lizmap, download the
>     corresponding package from
>     https://packages.3liz.org/pub/lizmap/unstable/. Do not use git
>     anymore. Zip packages contains all dependencies and built files.
>     Just pick the zip, unarchive files, and install Lizmap as usual.
>   * If you want to contribute, and test your code, you'll have to
>     install some tools like Composer, Npm and Make. After retrieving the
>     source code with git, you'll have to launch these tools to install
>     dependencies and to build JS files. See the CONTRIBUTING.md
>     <https://github.com/3liz/lizmap-web-client/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>
>     file for details.
> 
> For official stable releases, you'll just have to download zip packages
> from the release page on Github, as usual:
> https://github.com/3liz/lizmap-web-client/releases. Zip packages
> contains all dependencies and built files.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> -- 
> 
> Laurent Jouanneau
> Responsable Développement
> www.3liz.com <http://www.3liz.com>
> 
> 
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