[Pkg-javascript-devel] Suggestion: Replace all current and future @unicode packages with node-unicode-data

[Pirate Praveen]

On 27/12/22 3:47 PM, Israel Galadima wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've found that the upstream author for @unicode packages 
> uses node-unicode-data to generate the unicode data for all @unicode 
> packages.
>
> I was thinking that we could replace all current and future @unicode 
> packages with node-unicode-data instead of having separate packages 
> for them.
>
> The workflow I am proposing is that we pass the unicode version as a 
> parameter to node-unicode-data and it will download and generate the 
> unicode data for that version.
>
Ideally we should be able to get these using watch file/uscan. I'm not 
commenting on the suitability of the whole approach (my comment is 
limited to getting orig.tar part), lets see if others have any comments.
> node-unicode-data is not a published npm package so here is the git repo:
> https://github.com/node-unicode/node-unicode-data. @unicode packages 
> are only used as build dependencies.
>
> I'd be happy to work on the package if the suggestion is agreed upon.
>
> Regards.
>
>
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