Please add releases to the project

[datatables]

Please add releases to the project

[arderyp]

whatever happened to datatables-plugins npm package? Would be a shame to require bower as a dependency just to grab that package there since it isnt in NPM. If I am missing something and it IS in NPM stored under some other name, please let me know.

EDIT: I see drmonty-datatables-plugins is available, but I think an official package would be much better

I've created a datatables.net-plugins package on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/datatables.net-plugins .

What it is missing is a main file since it doesn't really make sense for this kind of repo. You would need to select the file that you want using the require statement.

Yup good point. i'll look into that when I can.

[vasa-chi]

Thank you :)

[CyborgMaster]

I would also very much appreciate this. We just started managing our front end packages inside of our Rails project using rails-assets.org, which packages bower packages as ruby gems. In order for the conversion process to work correctly, there must be official bower release tags for the project.

It should be very simple. We only need a basic bower.json and a version tag on the repo.

Thanks!

[X13454]

+1

[varemenos]

Please do this, we recently had issues due to updating dataTables-Plugins via bower.
Bower didn't match any release so it added an asterisk and pulled the latest commit which broke our UI.

I was forced to specify a commit id, so the project is stuck at that point of time until you guyz add releases (or until in the future I test and fix the UI for another future commit)

[margaritis]

👍

I've just added tag 1.0.0 to the current HEAD of this repo. Each time I release to the DataTables CDN site I'll bump the patch number up by one. The minor number will be bumped if I do any major alterations to the layout for the repo and I think it is unlikely that the major version will ever change from 1.

I haven't added any JSON description files yet - that is still to do. but the tag is there at least :-)

[CyborgMaster]

Hey, that's good enough for what I need. This lets me use bower and rails-assets.org. Thank you!

I vote this issue be closed.

[varemenos]

@DataTables wouldn't it be better if the Plugins repo had the same version number as the DataTables repo's version number to represent which Plugins release is for which DataTables release?

I suppose that is possible, but the plug-in version don't really map 1:1 with DataTables releases. For example the sorting and i18n plug-ins don't relate to DataTables versions at all (beyond their based need for DataTables).

Possibly I should match the main release versions - 1.x.

I'll certainly consider it - thanks for the input.

And now a bower file: https://github.com/DataTables/Plugins/blob/master/bower.json which is published to datatables.net-plugins as well.

Its taken an embarrassingly long time for me to do this. I've been wanted to do various other things for the packages, but haven't yet. This is a stop gap.

[arderyp]

YESS! that was super quick, thanks so much!