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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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