On Monday, April 13, 2015 11:25:05 PM Vincent Bernat wrote: > 13 avril 2015 10:37 +0100, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> : > > I presume that we can agree that, if someone started offering a web > > service compiling C code with output an order of magnitude better in > > every dimension than gcc can achieve, we still wouldn't use it for our > > binaries (at least not unless it were available as free software that we > > could host ourselves). What makes JavaScript worthy of special > > treatment? > > It is an interpreted language and "compiled" source can sometimes be > considered as a pristine source too (for example, concatenation). Minified javascript is not source in the sense Debian requires. Scott K
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