[Pkg-javascript-devel] Another update path to acorn 6: smooth

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 4:38 PM Bastien ROUCARIES
<roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I think it is feasible to upgrade smoothly acorn 6 and acorn breaking
> the cycle by backporting the patch of acorn6 from 1.0 to 0.68
>
> Patch apply smoothly the only problem is that typescript is not
> included in acorn
> thus I get an error (see debian-0.68-experimental in rollup)
>
> Thus that I will do is to upload a new acorn 5 (unstable) that will
> supply the typescript and drop the typescript for node-typescripts
> that package (in unstable) that have this typescripts
>
> Then I will upload an acorn6 that have the new typescript in experimental.
>
> Then I will build rollup.

I achieved to build a 0.68.1 with acorn6 and self test work...

Does it release the upgrade path ?

If so I could upload to experimental with a version like
1.0+really0.68.1+acorn6 and try some sanity checking.

What do you think ?

Bastien

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> Bastien