[Pkg-javascript-devel] Removing babel 6: Call for help

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:35 am, Pirate Praveen 
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> More todo: 11 runtime reverse dependencies of node-babel 7 (some of 
> them could be removed). 5 reverse build dependencies of node-babylon 
> and 5 reverse build dependencies for 
> node-babel-plugin-add-module-exports.

I think we are just 4 packages away from removing src:node-babel

1. acorn - 960531 - needs to remove node-babel-preset-airbnb
2. libjs-webrtc-adapter - 959798 - fails with browserify-lite but works 
with webpack
3. node-yarnpkg - 960120 - builds fine but some syntax is not 
transpiled, probably because we did not specify all the required 
plugins to babel
4. rainloop - 960021 - it has rc bugs already, not sure what is the 
plan of Daniel Ring to keep it in shape (copying Daniel).

Out of this, node-yarnpkg really needs help from someone who is good at 
javascript and understands ES6 well, either we find the correct plugin 
to use or we patch it out manually to a syntax that works in node 10. 
For acorn, the repo is in a mess, but I will try to ignore git-dpm for 
now.