Re: Bug#920902: firefox: Please split out Javascript builds into arch:all package
On 1/31/19 11:38 AM, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> What's the point of writing code in an arch-independent language, when you
> *still* end up with arch-dependency due to an unportable runtime?
It's convenience, nothing else. Firefox upstream used to build the Javascript
modules separately, now they just integrated that into the build process
which resulted into NodeJS being pulled in.
> I wonder if wouldn't be possible to ship all NodeJS modules required for
> building Firefox with the source code and run the build process in Firefox's
> own JS runtime.
No idea whether this is possible. I'm not a Javascript expert.
Adrian
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