Add bower support

[smohadjer]

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[janrembold]

#19

[gigmaps]

@smohadjer bower.json was added as part of #16 - but google still needs to tag the branch master + version for the package to be able to be registered with (and therefore be installed via) bower.

There's a new pull request for google to fix this : #20 - although tags can't be added via pull request - so it's technically more a minor bug fix + comment.

For info:
If you look at https://github.com/googlemaps/js-info-bubble/releases you'll see there are no releases or tags yet for this package - the "version": "0.8" within bower.json is deprecated and not enough for bower to know which version is being installed. Bower now relies on git tags instead of version in bower.json.

See https://github.com/bower/spec/blob/master/json.md#version

[Andreas-Schoenefeldt]

+1, this would be really convenient - it would be also great, if the bower.io registry http://bower.io/search/?q=js-info-bubble was the real thing and not the fork.

[gigmaps]

@Andreas-Schoenefeldt i'm assuming that @daniellmb is simply squatting on the bower.io registry name until google gets their act together and tags the master release...

@markmcd @brendankenny @broady any reason why someone at google hasn't tagged the branch master + version of js-info-bubble?

[mkolmogorov]

Seems @daniellmb dropped his repository. Now there is no way to use js-info-bubble via bower

[yakovenkoroman1993]

I'm very keen to install the lib via bower too

[Andreas-Schoenefeldt]

I actualy managed to use it via bower directly with referencing the git repository:

{
  [...]
  "dependencies": {
    "js-marker-clusterer": "https://github.com/googlemaps/js-marker-clusterer/archive/gh-pages.zip",
    "js-info-bubble": "https://github.com/googlemaps/js-info-bubble/archive/gh-pages.zip",
    [...]
  },
  "version": "0.3.1",
  "license": "MIT",
  "main": [
    "web/css/main.css",
    "web/js/main.min.js"
  ]
}

So it is possible to get this, this ticket might be good to be closed ;).

[elboletaire]

The above solution by @Andreas-Schoenefeldt stopped working right now. I've been working with js-info-bubble installed with bower for the last month without any issue and today started returning errors 500 when retrieving js-info-bubble.

Definitely I'll drop bower ASAP from all my projects. It really sucks.

[Andreas-Schoenefeldt]

Hi @elboletaire , I'm actualy not sure if my solution is realy the correct one, it might be that github has just changed the location of its code export pages.

can you try bower install [email protected]:googlemaps/js-info-bubble.git --save Alternatively you can also just create your own fork with a bower.json of this.

Best wishes
Andreas

[elboletaire]

As said, I'm not gonna use bower anymore... if I still use bower is just for old projects, but everytime we add a new package we do so with npm + gulp instead of bower.

So, thanks for your suggestion @Andreas-Schoenefeldt, but I'm not gonna give it a try.

[Andreas-Schoenefeldt]

I think all the bower tickets can be closed now - it is not working anymore and should be droped.