Move Bower/bundle support to forge-dist.

- Keep main repo as CommonJS code without accumulated large built bundles. - Remove bower.json. - Update README. - Update CONTRIBUTING release instructions.

Author: davidlehn

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Forge ChangeLog
 - Improve OID mapping code.
 - Change test servers from Python to JavaScript.
 - Improve PhantomJS support.
+- Move Bower/bundle support to
+ [forge-dist](https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge-dist).
 
 ### Added
 

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ Versioning
 Release Process
 ---------------
 
-* commit changes
+## Update the main repository:
+
+* Commit changes.
 * `$EDITOR package.json`: update to release version and remove `-dev` suffix.
 * `git commit package.json -m "Release {version}."`
 * `git tag {version}`
@@ -29,12 +31,32 @@ Release Process
 * `git push`
 * `git push --tags`
 
+## Publish to NPM:
+
 To ensure a clean upload, use a clean updated checkout, and run the following:
 
 * `git checkout {version}`
 * `npm publish`
 
+## Update bundled distribution
+
+This is kept in a different repository due to accumulated per-release bundle
+sizes.
+
+* Checkout [forge-dist][].
+* Build a clean Forge version you want to distribute:
+ * `git checkout {version}`
+ * `npm run build`
+* Copy files to `forge-dist`:
+ * `cp FORGE/dist/forge.min.js FORGE/dist/jsbn.min.js FORGEDIST/dist/`
+* Release `forge-dist`:
+ * Commit changes.
+ * `git tag {version}`
+ * `git push`
+ * `git push --tags`
+
 [Node.js Style Guide]: http://nodeguide.com/style.html
-[jshint]: http://www.jshint.com/install/
-[Semantic Versioning]: http://semver.org/
 [README]: ./README.md
+[Semantic Versioning]: http://semver.org/
+[forge-dist]: https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge-dist
+[jshint]: http://www.jshint.com/install/

README.md

@@ -110,6 +110,18 @@ You can then use forge as a regular module:
 var forge = require('node-forge');
 ```
 
+### Bundle / Bower
+
+Pre-built and minimized basic forge bundles are built in the [UMD][] format for
+each release and distributed in a separate repository:
+
+https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge-dist
+
+This bundle can be used in many environments. In particular it can be installed
+with [Bower][]:
+
+ bower install forge
+
 ### Requirements
 
 The core JavaScript has the following requirements:
@@ -1896,6 +1908,7 @@ Financial support is welcome and helps contribute to futher development:
 [SHA-384]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-384
 [SHA-512]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-512
 [TLS]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
+[UMD]: https://github.com/umdjs/umd
 [X.509]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509
 [freenode]: https://freenode.net/
 [webpack]: https://webpack.github.io/