[Pkg-javascript-devel] pkg-js-tools roadmap

[Yadd]

Le 21/10/2021 à 20:45, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> Hi Yadd,
> 
> Quoting Yadd (2021-10-21 11:13:54)
>> little proposition for pkg-js-tools 0.10 (experimental):
>>  * transform package.json:
>>    + remove unneeded fields (scripts, files, devDependencies,
>>      keywords,...)
>>    + add field 'pkgjsVersion' to be able to produce auto_pkg-js-tools
>>      transitions
>>    + serialize (to minimize size)
> 
> I guess you posted the above to gain input from others less involved in 
> the development of pkg-js-tools.
> 
> Please note that those not involved already in development also are not 
> likely to make much sense of the very brief points you shared.
> 
> In other words: Please consider expanding, to raise the likelihood of 
> your getting valuable feedback.

pkg-js-tools intend to provide an automatic installer for node modules.
Perl, Python,... packages are simple to create: debhelper knows exactly
what to do with a Build.PL,... So the DD has only few things to do.
Node is different and all was done manually (debian/install,
override_dh_auto_build, tests,...).

So dh-sequence-nodejs (provided by pkg-js-tools) intents to automate
some things, trying to reproduce (and adapt) npm behavior:
 * automatically install files looking at package.json#files field
   and/or .npmignore
 * automatically build some things (for now only `grunt` when Gruntfile
   exists)
 * automatically manage components including automatically link them in
   node_modules/ directory during build and test
 * automatically manage embedded modules (build modules and test
   modules) (including link)
 * standardize test:
   + no need to write an override_dh_auto_test + a
     debian/tests/upstreamsuite
   + a simple debian/tests/pkg-js/test file is used for:
     - test during build
     - autopkgtest (using installed files, not source one)
 * automatically clean its stuff

pkg-js-tools provides also some utilities to help packagers.

                           - - -

Proposed roadmap:
 * build automatically more things (`rollup -c` when rollup.config.js
   exists,...) [#977607]
 * die if automatic build fails (then an override_dh_auto_build will be
   needed if dh-sequence-nodejs doesn't follow the good way). This is
   not the current behavior, that's why I don't want to increase
   supported compilers list before this change
 * read lerna.conf to automatically calculate
   debian/nodejs/additional_modules [#988561]
 * reduce package size, including this thread

Cheers,
Yadd