[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 448 Load updated Web UI files after server upgrade

[Petr Vobornik]

On 09/02/2013 09:42 AM, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 05:21:36PM +0200, Petr Vobornik wrote:
>>
>> Solution:
>> * Implemented a mini loader which loads basic resources. Dojo loader
>> takes action after Dojo is loaded.
>> * The loader adds a version parameter (?v=__NUM_VERSION__) to all requests.
>> * Version is defined in the loader. It's set to current in `make
>> version-update`.
>> * All static pages use this loader to fetch their resources.
>
> Couldn't you make this a build time thing, marking the links with the
> version with make?

Would it bring us any benefit at this moment?

> Alternatively, you could mark them with the hash of
> the target, in which case if the target did not change with upgrade,
> the hash would stay the same and the browser would not need to reload
> it.

Yes, it would optimize stuff even more. I'm not a fan of it though. 
Added benefit seems to be minimal.

I try to avoid doing modification of Web UI files at build time because 
I think the modifications make development less transparent (more 
changes on different places).
-- 
Petr Vobornik