Add missing bower.json

[devantoine]

Adding the missing bower.json would be very nice to work with bower. It can download the project but it's not able to know which file to include, which is the exact purpose of the "main" property of the bower.json.

For more infos on how to do it, refer to the following issue: CreateJS/SoundJS#76

[MikeMcl]

I am reluctant to include more than one package metadata file. I don't want to have to add and maintain a package.json, bower.json and component.json etc. for my repos. It is a shame that bower does not fall back to the package.json 'main' property, but I don't want to get into all that...

[metaman]

Shame. We could have done with one as well. Obviously we could fork and add it but keeping the fork in sync is not ideal for us.

[MikeMcl]

The library is registered with bower and if a user just wants to install the main file (should that be bignumber.js or bignumber.min.js?) they can just do e.g.

bower install --save https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MikeMcl/bignumber.js/master/bignumber.min.js

[metaman]

Thanks for the reply Mike! Unfortunately the issue is that we have custom dependency/build scripts that reply on our third party libraries having bower.json files :(

Should I get time (?) I would like to investigate changing this (i'm fairly new to the project). Personally I don't want a hard dependency on bower (useful that it is).

[nicolaes]

Had the same problem with bower.json's "main" property. Our scripts rely on that property to build the project - similar with what @metaman described.
Unfortunately we had to rely on big.js but the development is hindered due to it's reduced feature set.
Would love to see an update on this.

[MikeMcl]

@nicolaes Okay, I'll add a bower.json tomorrow.
Do you think the "main" file should be bignumber.js or bignumber.min.js?

[nicolaes]

Thanks @MikeMcl .
As bower automatic dependencies are almost always used with build scripts that include minification I suggest going with "main": "bignumber.js" - as you did in the big.js library :)
If there is need I can also lend a hand with the development around, by the way.

[MikeMcl]

bower.json added in v2.0.6