Added bower.json.

[codekipple]

Would you guys consider supporting bower?

I was trying to install FlexSlider via bower but was unable to set it to a particular version.

[soullivaneuh]

+1, and use tag version without "version/" prefix to avoid bower issue...

[kraftner]

+1, would be really awesome!

[blackjid]

👍

[siamkreative]

Please we need this!

[adis-me]

+1

[marlenesco]

+1

[alangvara]

Would be great!

[danielgillespie]

+1

[mattyza]

@codekipple Is there any way to direct bower to a specific tagged release of a project? FlexSlider releases are all tagged, with the master branch serving as the development branch.

If we can direct bower to a specific tag, that would be great and we can merge this in. :)

[codekipple]

@mattyza Yep bower works by detecting tags. The tags do have to follow semvar. I'm not sure if your tags will currently work due to them having 'version/' in the tag name. I'll have to give it a try.

If they don't it would mean changing the way you name your tags in the future.

[mattyza]

Right, that makes sense.

Please give it a test and let me know. :)

Matt Cohen
Chief Product Officer, WooThemes

http://woothemes.com/
http://matty.co.za/

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wrote:

@mattyza https://github.com/mattyza Yep bower works by detecting tags.
The tags do have to follow semvar http://semver.org/. I'm not sure if
your tags will currently work due to them having 'version/' in the tag
name. I'll have to give it a try.

If they don't it would mean changing the way you name your tags in the
future.

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[loranger]

@mattyza I cannot say better than @codekipple But you can take a look at the bower.json specifications. It seems bower does care about the semver format (for now) and get the tags chronologically, but you have to check beacause it looks kind of weird to me.

[sformisano]

+1 for all this guys, bower is really the de-facto standard for front-end dependency management so any serious library should support it these days!

[cheapsteak]

I've been trying to get flexslider to work with my Gulp setup which uses gulp-bower-files to concat the 3rd party plugins. Having trouble getting that to work without a bower.json :(

[samyerkes]

+1 definitely needed!

[g-roduit]

+1 here too!

[climboid]

Guys when is this going to be merged?? seems like a lot of people need it

[mattyza]

@climboid Please read the conversation above. :)

[Sparticuz]

Here's what I had to do to get Bower working on a fork of this repo.

1. I had to rename the tags. Bower doesn't like the version/ in front of the version number. (I guess you could probably just create the semver'ed tags instead of also deleting the old ones)

git tag 2.1 version/2.1
git tag 2.2 version/2.2
git tag 2.2.1 version/2.2.1
git tag 2.2.2 version/2.2.2
git tag -d version/2.1
git tag -d version/2.2
git tag -d version/2.2.1
git tag -d version/2.2.2
git push origin :refs/tags/version/2.1
git push origin :refs/tags/version/2.2
git push origin :refs/tags/version/2.2.1
git push origin :refs/tags/version/2.2.2
git push --tags

2. Once the new tags were in place, add in the bower.json file. (The one in this pull request is not correct. The FlexSlider version is old and the jquery dep is wrong, should be 1.4.2, not 1.7)

That's it, then this repo will work correctly with bower.

[mattyza]

Yeah, we won't be changing the tags, I reckon. :)

Is there any other benefit to changing the tag structure?

Matt Cohen
Chief Product Officer, WooThemes

http://woothemes.com/
http://matty.co.za/

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Kyle McNally notifications@github.com
wrote:

Here's what I had to do to get Bower working on a fork of this repo.

1. I had to rename the tags. Bower doesn't like the version/ in front of
   the version number. (I guess you could probably just create the semver'ed
   tags instead of also deleting the old ones)

git tag 2.1 version/2.1
git tag 2.2 version/2.2
git tag 2.2.1 version/2.2.1
git tag 2.2.2 version/2.2.2
git tag -d version/2.1
git tag -d version/2.2
git tag -d version/2.2.1
git tag -d version/2.2.2
git push origin :refs/tags/version/2.1
git push origin :refs/tags/version/2.2
git push origin :refs/tags/version/2.2.1
git push origin :refs/tags/version/2.2.2
git push --tags

2. Once the new tags were in place, add in the bower.json file. (The one
   in this pull request is not correct. The FlexSlider version is old and the
   jquery dep is wrong, should be 1.4.2, not 1.7)

That's it, then this repo will work correctly with bower.

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[Sparticuz]

The benefit to changing the tag structure is with automatic updates, all a user would need to do to update to the latest FlexSlider would be

bower update

Currently, users can still manage FlexSlider using bower, it's just not automatic

bower install FlexSlider#version/2.2.2

Then when 2.3 comes out, the user will have to do an install using FlexSlider#version/2.3.

I did refork and just add the new tags (instead of also deleting them) and bower did work fine, detecting only the semversion'd tags. (Maybe you could add both tags in the future?)

[DonDi1989]

Can you also add "main" in .bower.json because we need that when we use "grunt-wiredep" ?

[climboid]

If tags don't change we can't install automatically via bower and yeoman using grunt serve task. I really need the main in bower.json that @DonDi1989 . If there are no plans to update this please let us know and I'll create a separate bower package

[gephaest]

Please add bower support! It's standart in front-end.

[fritzblue]

+:100:

With all due respect, you guys are failing your user community something fierce w.r.t. this issue.

[jaylinski]

+1

[mpdude]

What about adding additional tags for current versions that are not prefixed with "version/"? Would that work for bower?

[doublemarked]

Would love to see this also. Currently bower will find and install the lib, but the lack of a bower.json is breaking other tools like wiredep.

[litchfield]

Come on guys, you can make thousands of people happy here with a single click of your mouse.

[adriantomic]

+1 for this. Wiredep won't work without a bower.json.

[Krigu]

+1. Would be really great!

[mpdude]

Only 964 more 👍 needed to get this merged. Spread the word!

[matgargano]

LETS DO THIS

[Bersam]

+1 for pull-request, but just as a workaround, you can override main property in your bower.json:
install FlexSlider like this:
bower install --save https://github.com/woothemes/FlexSlider.git
then override main property for wiredep like this:

...
"overrides": {
  "FlexSlider": {
    "main": [
      "jquery.flexslider.js",
      "flexslider.css"
    ]
  }
}
...

[Kanti]

+1 👍

[DragosMocrii]

+1 Voted!

[DragosMocrii]

@Bersam

Can you please provide more detailed instructions how to make this work? I am new to bower and wiredep, so am unsure where to add the overrides parts exactly. Thanks!

[Bersam]

@DragosMocrii here's a sample of working bower.json with overrides for FlexSlider.
https://gist.github.com/Bersam/8f3747af74f3aab11926

[DragosMocrii]

@Bersam

Thank you!

[octavioamu]

I added this bower but would overwrite the bower.json. Just adding here because some examples are missing the dependencies.

{
  "name": "flexslider",
  "version": "1.3.15",
  "main": [
    "./jquery.flexslider-min.js",
    "./flexslider.css"
  ],
  "ignore": [],
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "~2"
  }
}

or my override:

...
"overrides": {
    "flexslider": {
      "main": [
        "./jquery.flexslider-min.js",
        "./flexslider.css"
      ],
      "ignore": [],
      "dependencies": {
        "jquery": "~2"
      }
    }
  },

...

[jeffikus]

Hi guys, I've bumped this into the 2.6.0 release, you'll see it's focused on package managers in the release description I've planned! Thanks for your continued patience!

[soullivaneuh]

@jeffikus why adding all bower_components directory? This should be ignored.