[enhancement] Add missing bower.json.

[timgluz]

Hey, maintainer(s) of firebug/firebug-lite!

We at VersionEye are working hard to keep up the quality of the bower's registry.

We just finished our initial analysis of the quality of the Bower.io registry:

7530 - registered packages, 224 of them doesnt exists anymore;

We analysed 7306 existing packages and 1070 of them don't have bower.json on the master branch ( that's where a Bower client pulls a data ).

Sadly, your library firebug/firebug-lite is one of them.

Can you spare 15 minutes to help us to make Bower better?

Just add a new file bower.json and change attributes.

{
  "name": "firebug/firebug-lite",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "path/to/main.css",
  "description": "please add it",
  "license": "Eclipse",
  "ignore": [
    ".jshintrc",
    "**/*.txt"
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "<dependency_name>": "<semantic_version>",
    "<dependency_name>": "<Local_folder>",
    "<dependency_name>": "<package>"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "<test-framework-name>": "<version>"
  }
}

Read more about bower.json on the official spefication and nodejs semver library has great examples of proper versioning.

NB! Please validate your bower.json with jsonlint before commiting your updates.

Thank you!

Timo,
twitter: @versioneye
email: [email protected]
VersionEye - no more legacy software!

[janodvarko]

@deepak1556 Any tips?

Honza

[deepak1556]

could add a temporary one, since we are currently refactoring. but is this really needed right now? i dnt see the point of adding firebug-lite to bower registry at the moment. will patch it up in the next commit.

[SebastianZ]

I have no idea what bower is. @deepak1556 if you believe we don't need it, feel free to close this issue.

Sebastian

[deepak1556]

@SebastianZ its just a package manager, i was planning on adding it after the refactoring, so will leave this open until then.

[timgluz]

No hurry, my point was notify that all registered bower packages should have proper project files; Otherwise people who are using bower will have difficulties to manage dependencies and licenses.

Thanks for your effort!

[alexewerlof]

@deepak1556 if the refactoring is done would you consider adding the bower.json and making us happy?

Bower is not "just" a package manager. It is "the" package manager for the front-end stuff. npm is mostly used for Node and Browserify while Bower is the most popular package manager for code that loads into browser, i.e. a good use case for Firebug lite.

I think Firebug is a really awesome package and it would be a pitty that in order to install it we have to download a tar package and extract it while the rest of our front-end packages are nicely installed using bower. I can happily help with the bower.json file (which describes the package).