[Pkg-javascript-devel] Replace 'yui-compressor' with 'uglifyjs'

[Xavier]

Le 18/01/2021 à 09:49, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> Quoting Marcelo Jorge Vieira (2021-01-18 03:02:51)
>> What do you think about replace 'yui-compressor' with 'uglifyjs'.
>>
>> The latest yui-compressor was release on May 15, 2013.
>>
>> https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor/tags
>> https://packages.debian.org/sid/yui-compressor
> 
> For projects where upstream does _not_ use YUI-compressor themselves, I 
> recommend to immediately switch to uglify-js 3.x.
> 
> For projects where upstream _does_ use YUI-compressor, I suggest to 
> cautiously try switch, but then make sure to test at least once the 
> resulting code by testing the minified files in a web browser: Maybe 
> upstream (even unknowingly) rely on specific behaviour/flaws of 
> YUI-compressor.
> 
> Beware that YUI-compressor also supports compressing CSS files.  I 
> recomend replacing that with sassc: Sass takes Sass code as input 
> (serialized as either SASS or SCSS), but since SCSS is a strict superset 
> of CSS it can take CSS as input as well.
> 
> I do *not* recommend replacing JS compressor with Terser: I highly doubt 
> that YIU-compressor supports newer ES6 code as input which would be a 
> reason to use Terser instead of Uglify-js, and Terser is not up-to-date.
> 
> I do *not* recommend replacing CSS compressor with LESS.js: Unlike SCSS, 
> the LESS format is *not* a strict superset.
> 
> I do *not* recommend replacing CSS compressor with PostCSS: PostCSS can 
> do lots of things, raising the risk of doing some things wrong.

OK, please go ahead

Cheers,
Xavier