Please ship original (non-minified) jquery sources about hoogle HOT 4 CLOSED

I had similar discussions with @NoMeta in ndmitchell/shake#100 - basically I don't think it's useful to my users, but if it's useful to Debian, I'm happy to dump something in the tarball if you send me a patch. However, it occurs to me that if there was a Haskell library jquery, with the two functions getJQuery :: IO String (get the jQuery source) and getJQueryFile :: IO FilePath` (find where I put it) then both Shake and Hoogle (and likely lots of other libraries) could depend on it. The Debian team could then package one single library with whatever constraints you need (you could even have one of you guys write the package) and you'd probably save work in the long run.

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I see. The problem is not only about jquery - you're using also jquery-cookie (but you're shipping that non-minified, so it's good for now), so it would have to be a slightly more generic solution.

Let me think on how this would work for both normal Cabal/Hackage use and Debianized packages.

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The plugins that people layer on top are far simpler and far smaller, so not much of an issue. If the Haskell JQuery package wanted to ship 100 common plugins then it could easily do with barely any increase in size and no increase in dependencies.

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Fixed in the next version (which is currently at https://github.com/ndmitchell/hogle) by using the js-jquery package on Hackage, which ships the sources properly. All other jQuery addins are shipped unminified.

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