Attempt to remove as many options as possible

[phated]

A goal of mine is to gut as many options as we possibly can. We should be able to figure out the right way to do things in many cases, so users shouldn't have to use things like mapFile or mapSources, etc.

I'm not sure exactly which options can be removed but we need to have a deep understanding why people are using it and how we can do that automatically before we can remove an option.

[phated]

Creating modules as option replacements at https://github.com/gulp-sourcemaps. If anyone wants to help, I'll give you access to the repo.

[phated]

cc @robinvenneman @contra @AlexHenkel or anyone else

[CKGrafico]

Do you have a list with all options?
options.sourceRoot
options.loadMaps // load loadInlineMaps

[phated]

@CKGrafico https://github.com/gulp-sourcemaps/gulp-sourcemaps#init-options and https://github.com/gulp-sourcemaps/gulp-sourcemaps#write-options

[CKGrafico]

My opinions about that are only based on my experiences with sourcemaps:

• loadMaps: I don't use this because I try to use always JS code without min (also with 3rd party) and I'm who minifies the code.
• identityMap: Never need that
• addComment: Not for me but I understand that some people need it.
• includeContent: For me is always true.
• sourceRoot: if the last is true I don't need it.
• destPath: I prefer inline sourcemaps but maybe someone not.
• sourceMappingURLPrefix: Only needed is you don't use inline.
• sourceMappingURL: The same.
• mapFile: The same.
• charset: Mmm never for me but not sure if someone has code without utf-8
• clone: Never used but could be insteresting.

[Videl]

@phated, do you have a list of what options needs to be implemented?

[phated]

@Videl Almost all the options listed in the comment above yours. I started creating repositories for each at https://github.com/gulp-sourcemaps/ and worked on addComment/sourceMappingURLPrefix/sourceMappingURL (in an open PR) and mapSources. charset doesn't need to be replaced and clone might not need to be (needs to be researched).

[phated]

identityMap has been removed because I finished https://github.com/gulp-sourcemaps/identity-map today.

[phated]

I just chopped out everything. Will have to create plugins as they are needed but creating them as I tried to remove options was just slowing progress.