Loading aurelia-loader-default without System

[jods4]

The codebase from Aurelia makes extensive use of System api. At the same time, it's supposed to work without it, e.g. in a requirejs runtime. To that effect, aurelia-loader-default installs a very thin polyfill for System when it's missing (basically delegating to require).

The problem is that aurelia-bootstrapper loads aurelia-loader-default dynamically, with a call to System.import, which is of course impossible at that point.

It's a kind of chicken-and-egg problem. I don't know what was the thinking behind dynamically loading aurelia-loader-default. It seems to me the easiest fix is to import it statically.

I worked around this problem by making sure that aurelia-loader-default is loaded before aurelia-bootstrapper is, but that feels wrong. It feels like a magic incantation whereas it should be a basic dependency of the bootstrapper.

[EisenbergEffect]

Already fixed this and deployed the release. jspm update the bootstrapper and it should be fixed.

[npelletm]

cf aurelia/framework#110 that fix it
too slow... ;-)

[jods4]

Fixed 6 hours before I reported it? That was fast! ;)