[Pkg-javascript-devel] about blog post packaging pump.io

[Tim Retout]

On 28 August 2014 15:51, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
> i'm commenting on Tim Retout's blog post here since it can be of
> interest for pkg-javascript.

Awesome. :)  I should write more blog posts, because this feedback is
really useful.  For the record, it was this one:
http://retout.co.uk/blog/2014/08/28/pump.io-update-1

> node-iconv-lite
> That package is quite difficult to deal with - copyright issues, lots of
> files to be downloaded and rebuilded. I tried and abandoned it in
> favor of node-iconv (a simpler mess to deal with). See also
> https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Database

Thanks for the pointer to that page.  I know that iconv-lite claims to
be "faster"... on casual inspection I didn't think it was impossible
to package, but if it's easy to patch in plain iconv and avoid waiting
for the NEW queue, I'm going to do that.

I think this mostly affects node-encoding, which I haven't looked at
yet because I thought I was blocked by iconv-lite.

> moment
> a must !
> libjs-moment is useful as well as node-moment.
> Feel welcome to package moment independently - it is not trivial code,
> it is not small code, it deserves to be in its own package.

That's good to hear - I've filed an ITP.  I'm not planning on
packaging moment-timezone if I can avoid it.  Looks like I'll have to
bypass the grunt build system, and won't be able to run the tests
because they depend on nodeunit. :(


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Tim Retout <diocles at debian.org>