Compile issues with `cli` and `compiler`

[johnspackman]

An ongoing difficulty with cli and compiler is that they are very closely linked (almost co-dependent) and yet have independent development paths; this leads to situations where the travis/sausage unit tests for one can fail because one of the projects is not using the correct branch of the other project.

Making Travis tests depend on published npm versions isn't suitable because compiler is required to go through it's own unit test cycle before merging into master and being published to npm; but some of the compiler unit tests rely on cli to get built, and if there is a change in compiler which breaks cli, then this forces us to release something to npm that breaks the live cli until it has gone through it's own test/publish cycle.

It seems that we would sometimes (often?) want to tie branches of cli and compiler together, have them unit tested together, and released together.

How would it be if we merged cli and compiler?? Both are APIs so there shouldn't be much conflict, and at present the three contributors are the same people so it seems like a natural fit from a time-management point of view; fundamentally it would make releasing so much simpler because the unit tests would be self contained.

[cboulanger]

I wouldn't mind. In the end, qooxdoo-cli has no purpose of its own, it is fundamentally dependent on the compiler (even the contrib commands make no sense without it). So yes +1 for merging.

[hkollmann]

As long as the compiler api stays public i agree to the merging. We could handle the naming problem this way:

• deprecate qxcompiler on npm
• deprecate qx-cli on npm
• merge qooxdoo-cli into qooxdoo-compiler
• rename the package to qooxdoo-compiler instead of qxcompiler.
• delete qooxdoo-cli

We should think about removing some of the older qooxdoo repositories. But that is another story.

[johnspackman]

👍 i'll get started on that during the holidays hopefully.

[hkollmann]

see here too: https://github.com/qooxdoo/qooxdoo/issues/9471

[hkollmann]

and here: https://github.com/qooxdoo/qooxdoo/issues/9369

[hkollmann]

done with qooxdoo/qooxdoo-compiler#69