Make Leaflet properly available via Bower

[atogle]

The dist directory no longer contains any of the js files since 0.6.2. Can we add those back? It makes it very convenient when installing Leaflet via Bower.

[jfirebaugh]

Heh, seems like we can't win. The build output was intentionally removed by request, see #1354.

It looks like the Bower developers recognize that checking in build output is an antipattern and have plans to address it; see bower/bower#455.

[mourner]

Yeah, that's a bower problem, lets hope they get it fixed soon. Removing the dist files from the repo made my life much easier — I regret not doing this earlier.

[atogle]

Thanks @jfirebaugh and @mourner. Good to know that this is being discussed in the Bower community. I'll work around this in the meantime.

[elf-pavlik]

suggestion from James Coglan to keep distributions for particular package managers as separate repositories: faye/faye#242 (comment)

his argument makes lots of sense IMO maybe you can take similar path with leaflet?

oh, just notticed this one: https://github.com/vperron/leaflet-dist

[tbranyen]

@elf-pavlik perfect, maybe this should be displayed prominently someplace for others. Installing leaflet as-is via bower is useless.

[elf-pavlik]

i suggest requesting to unregister this repository through: bower/bower#120

then choosing one to host distribution, i would prefer it also under https://github.com/Leaflet orga account and then register that one with bower @vperron

[hyzhak]

What about to do it like Angularjs does? It has bower repo special for builts:
https://github.com/angular/bower-angular
PS:
the same idea as @elf-pavlik has proposed

[LostInBrittany]

I fully agree with @elf-pavlik and @hyzhak , I think the AngularJS way is the right one, at least for somebody who is integrating Leaflet and who don't want neither use a CDN not having the JS put in hard on his project.

Having a Java background, I love the Maven/Gradle repository idea, declaring the libraries I need and they get recovered automatically. I've been used bower to do the same with JavaScript, recovering directly all the files (js, css) I need.

Please, create a bower-leaflet, it would make things simpler for many developers :)

[mourner]

OK, enough support for a separate repo to convince me. :) Reopened the issue and renamed the title to reflect the discussion.