[ovirt-devel] PatternFly upgrade - how to handle JS dependencies

[Vojtech Szocs]

Hello,

we'd like to upgrade the version of PatternFly (plus associated libraries,
namely Bootstrap and jQuery) used in oVirt UI.

Today, PatternFly stuff (PF + associated libraries) comes from `patternfly1`
package hosted at Copr repo:

  https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/patternfly/patternfly1/

Today, we require `patternfly1` as both Engine RPM build dependency and the
Engine devel. env. dependency.

To keep things simple, I'd like to propose the following approach:

- create oVirt specific package, e.g. `ovirt-patternfly`, hosted at Copr,
  containing PatternFly + associated libraries (Bootstrap, jQuery) which
  are intended *specifically* for use by oVirt UI (hence the ovirt prefix)

- discontinue maintenance of `patternfly1` package at Copr

- keep the existing approach: require `ovirt-patternfly` as both the Engine
  build dependency and the Engine devel. env. dependency

An alternative approach would be to introduce Node.js as Engine devel. env.
dependency (use `npm install` to pull PF stuff), while using the existing
ovirt-engine-{nodejs,nodejs-modules} packages for Engine RPM build.

However, this alternative has some downsides, namely complication of devel.
env. just to fetch the PF stuff. I don't like the idea of complicating the
existing devel. env. just for the sake of fetching some 3rd party libs.

I'm wondering what others think about this.

Regards,
Vojtech