[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#802876: ITP: node-jison -- an API for creating parsers in JavaScript

Sat Oct 24 13:03:11 UTC 2015

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>

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* Package name    : node-jison
  Version         : 0.3.10
  Upstream Author : Zachary Carter <zach at carter.name>
* URL             : http://zaach.github.io/jison/
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description     : an API for creating parsers in JavaScript

 Jison generates bottom-up parsers in JavaScript.  Its API is similar to
 Bison's, hence the name.  It supports many of Bison's major features,
 plus some of its own.  If you are new to parser generators such as
 Bison, and Context-free Grammars in general, a good introduction is
 found in the Bison manual. If you already know Bison, Jison should be
 easy to pickup.
 .
 Briefly, Jison takes a JSON encoded grammar or Bison style grammar and
 outputs a JavaScript file capable of parsing the language described by
 that grammar.  You can then use the generated script to parse inputs
 and accept, reject, or perform actions based on the input.

Package is needed to generate coffeescript from its true source
(currently it builds itself from pre-built code).

Package will be maintained in the Javascript Maintainers Team.