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fastmail / overture

Overture is a powerful JS library for building really slick web applications, with performance at, or surpassing, native apps.
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Split Loader to a new Repo #7

Open explorigin opened 9 years ago

explorigin commented 9 years ago

Consider moving the loader to a new repository. Staying in this repo, it becomes the step-child because it's not included in the API documentation or the example. Furthermore, it's truly completely independent of Overture (other than the "O" namespace which can be optional).

While I imagine others would like to choose their own, more popular, loader, the Overture loader stands out in that it's great for mobile web applications because:

The build steps for it aren't complicated and one could easily use gulp to package it up instead of transferring over the whole build chain of Overture.

All it needs is:

:grinning:

neilj commented 9 years ago

Yeh, there are quite a few Loader libs out there which are pretty decent. This one does exactly what we think it should do, but as you say it's entirely independent of Overture itself. The main reason it's in the same repo is because it was easier for us to manage than having lots of separate repos. We should look into splitting it out.