Re: python-jsmin: evil or not?
>>>>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Richard Fontana wrote:
> It's clear that Dave did see the Baruch Even code, since he modified it.
> He also says "the credits in the source file are there to honor the
> inspiration for the source, not the actual implementation."
> None of this makes me inclined to see Dave's code as something other
> than a derivative work of Crockford's jsmin.c. I have never really
> attempted to compare the two though.
The two implementations can be seen here:
https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSMin/blob/master/jsmin.c
https://bitbucket.org/dcs/jsmin/src/006a4e04c9b1b04e717ac4d4b47055d19aa6e8ca/jsmin/__init__.py
IMO they have little (if any) resemblance to each other.
Ulrich
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