[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#495178: Bug#495178: Bug#495178: (no subject)

[Marcelo Jorge Vieira]

Hi Jonas,

On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 00:18 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (2013-07-30 22:39:07)
> > On 07/30/2013 03:36 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > Quoting Thomas Bechtold (2013-07-30 19:47:10)
> > >> forgot to describe the attached debdiff. The patch adds a 
> > >> Build-Depends to yui-compressor and generates jquery.min.js. That's 
> > >> it.
> > > 
> > > I recommend against using a different and inferior compressor than 
> > > the one well tested upstream: uglify.
> > 
> > I think you're suggesting that this package should use the uglify 
> > javascript minifier, rather than the yui minifier.
> > 
> > Do you mean node-uglify or ruby-uglifier or something else?
> 
> I mean node-uglify.  I believe that's the tool the jquery project uses 
> themselves for their minification.
> 
> I elaborated more on this at bug#679665.
> 
> 
> > Does the debian javascript packaging team want to settle on a "best 
> > practices" minifier and document it someplace?
> 
> Good idea!
> 
> In my opinion we should start simple and recommend use of node-uglify in 
> our Policy wiki page.
> 
> (then later we can consider introducing a package to auto-(re-)compress 
> allowing local admin to deviate from a default compressor)
> 
> What do others in the team think?

Good idea! node-uglify FTW, go ahead ;)


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