[Pkg-javascript-devel] What JS compressor should I use?

[Emilien Klein]

2014-08-17 10:09 GMT+02:00 Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org>:
> Le dimanche 17 août 2014 à 15:29 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> To make sure we're using DFSG stuff, I'm compressing the JS scripts
>> myself, instead of using pre-minified JS from upstream. Nothing fancy,
>> I'm sure that's best practice everyone uses here.
>>
>> However, which compressor should I use?

https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Policy currently advises to use
uglifyjs for this purpose
   +Emilien

>> I need my packages to build in
>> Wheezy, which is why I currently use yui-compressor (which is available
>> there as well). Though there may be other (better) alternatives which I
>> didn't spot. I perfectly know that the resulting JS file (after
>> compressing with yui-compressor) isn't the best possible result.
>>
>> Note that using Node isn't one of the options I'm considering, because
>> it's simply too big (though yui-compressor seems to depend on on java,
>> which isn't great either). Anything in wheezy-backport would be
>> acceptable too.
>
> could you explain what "too big" means, especially when compared to java
> which, by all means, is bigger ?
>
> Jérémy
>
>
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