bower/NOTES.md

• Offline usage
• Config
  • Allow config.cwd to be changed by an argument when using the CLI. Two ways of doing this:
    • Read a --cwd or similar and change the config.cwd to it
    • Allow any arbitrary config.* to be changed with --config.* arguments
      • It seems that rc already does this, but is bugged.. see: https://github.com/dominictarr/rc/issues/9
  • Codebase should access config directly and not use cached vars, see: https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/232#issuecomment-16014467
• Registry
  • Register model
    • Allow endpoints other than git?
    • Allow easy unregister
    • Possible ways to get rid of shim repos
      • https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/172#issuecomment-13017880
      • https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/198
      • But then.. how would versions be handled here?? different versions might have changed the deps
  • Publish model
• Commands
  • Abbreviations is supported in nopt.. don't need to install anything else
  • Bower script x
    • post-install (only useful for moving files around)
    • pre-publish
    • etc
  • bower test
  • bower install & update
    • Ability to target specific commits and not only versions
      • But then, how would a version be guessed from it?!
      • It would be ok project wise, but if used within a reusable package, it must have a version!
    • Option to install deps in a tree structure like npm? see: https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/157
    • Be smart when guessing the name out of the endpoint, see: https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/192
    • Allow a name to be specified when installing some endpoints, see: https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/192#issuecomment-16014201
      • Also try to guess version from the file contents? see: https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/193
    • Print a tree like npm with the deps
    • Root packages that resolve to same higher versions should always have priority!!
    • Allow overrides of the registry for easier fork integration? this need to be discussed as part of the spec, see: https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/342
    • Install only stable versions, see: https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/266
    • Expand also .gz files, see: https://github.com/twitter/bower/issues/347
• Contributing.md
  • Copy from master
  • Tell users to learn about promises
  • Tell users to not forget to call .done() to throw unhandled promise errors in tests
• Inter process locks? two processes running bower (either from the bin or programatically) might mess up the cache on write operations.. and possibly other write operations. Think about a solution for this (make the worker multi-process aware?!)
• Use update-notifier!!
• Use yeomen insight!!
• bower could setup a git hook on folders that are github repos to make validation of the json (if it conforms with the spec)
• in prod dont forget to Q.longStackJumpLimit = 0;
• add perf tests
• url resolver should work with fonts, e.g.: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Serif
• discuss ability to specify folders inside bower_components.. e.g. components/fonts/
• discuss namespaces in the registry
• cache dir location: https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/448

Not BC changes:

• shorthand_resolver -> shorthandResolver
• shorthand resolver syntax {{{}}} to just {{}}