Re: Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)
On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 09:48:02AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 5 octobre 2016 22:49 CEST, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> :
>
> > If you fancy explaining what you think browserified means w.r.t. the
> > Jison stuff, go ahead of course. That might at least help to focus the
> > discussion a bit. Just don't feel obliged to because I said so.
>
> The libjs-handlebars issue has little to share with browserified
> JS. Browserified JS is usually just concatenated JS. Here, there is an
> equivalent of flex/bison involved. That's quite unusual and is more a
> build process. If the TC rules over this issue, it should drop the
> "browserified" part. Otherwise, a negative answer would also apply to
> more basic packages.
>...
Why is Grunt such a blocker here?
If I understand it correctly, Grunt is a powerful build system that can
do a gazillion different things and has many dependencies.
For the basic browserified JS case, could a much simpler tool like
node-browserify-lite produce the same output?
cu
Adrian
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