[Pkg-javascript-devel] babel 6 -> 7 transition - call for help

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 3:36 PM Pirate Praveen <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
>
> Hi team,
>
> Webpack 3 -> 4 update was requested recently which needs babel 7. In
> addition to it, esm needs (which will allow us to skip rollup for ES
> modules to help fix many circular dependencies) babel 7, gitlab also
> needs babel 7.
>
> I started working on the update and just looked at the devDependencies,
> it needs browserify, webpack, rollup and gulp to build! This is new
> record even by node's own standard!
>
> Luckily we have a recent enough nodejs in unstable and we can skip most
> of the transpilation steps (tested with acorn) but it requires a manual
> conversion of ES modules to CJS. It is sad to see native support for ES
> modules remaining experimental for ever in nodejs.
>
> Let me know if anyone feel brave enough to join this effort.
>
> Thanks
> Praveen

Hi,

I have achieved to get node-acorn in shape....

Will upload in experimental

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