Open joewiz opened 9 years ago
I noticed that repo.xml and expath-pkg.xml are stored in the repo. Since they are generated by the grunt default task, should they be removed?
grunt default
Perhaps one reason for overriding the template file was that you wanted multiple authors to be listed? The package.json file does limit you to a single author, but it allows multiple contributors and can even read from an AUTHORS file. See https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/doc/files/package.json.md#people-fields-author-contributors and the bit on the AUTHORS file at https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/doc/files/package.json.md#default-values. These might help.
author
contributors
AUTHORS
It just occurred to me that a related change would be to add the the .xml versions of these (and perhaps other compiled files) to the .gitignore file.
Perhaps @JoernT, who has created the installer, has a comment?
I noticed that repo.xml and expath-pkg.xml are stored in the repo. Since they are generated by the
grunt default
task, should they be removed?Perhaps one reason for overriding the template file was that you wanted multiple authors to be listed? The package.json file does limit you to a single
author
, but it allows multiplecontributors
and can even read from anAUTHORS
file. See https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/doc/files/package.json.md#people-fields-author-contributors and the bit on theAUTHORS
file at https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/doc/files/package.json.md#default-values. These might help.