[Pkg-javascript-devel] backport nodejs to wheezy

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Daniel Pocock (2013-10-11 14:30:46)
> On 11/10/13 13:30, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> I still (as I believe I pointed out in one of the bugreports I filed 
>> that day when doing the backport) recommend using uglifyjs 
>> consistently.
>>
>> (upstream argued there was a big size gain using another minifier, 
>> but in actual test the difference was minimal, and uglifyjs is (also) 
>> well tested and means simpler dependencies, compared to Java-based 
>> tools.
>>
>
> For some reason (I haven't checked exactly why) upstream uses 
> closure-compiler for their Grammar file and uglify for the rest of 
> their code
>
> While it wouldn't be hard, I'm not too keen to make further changes to 
> their build system unless it is essential - however, if you are 
> curious about this particular case, you could raise an issue in their 
> github project page and we can try to understand it

That's what I did: https://github.com/versatica/JsSIP/issues/158

As I read it, upstream eventually followed mu suggestion to use uglifyjs 
- just haven't materialized as a new upstream version yet, apparently.


 - Jonas

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