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

[Daniel Ring]

I updated the Rainloop package on Salsa; please take a look at it, and 
sponsor an upload to the archive if you think it's ready.

The previous version became unbuildable as its dependencies were updated 
(hence the RC bugs), but updating to the latest upstream version was 
blocked by outdated Webpack and Babel versions until now.

This update removes Rainloop's dependencies on 
node-knockout-transformations and 
node-babel-plugin-transform-decorators-legacy, which have no other 
reverse-dependencies and can now be removed from the archive.

-- Daniel

On 5/14/2020 8:46 PM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
>