<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-12-31 7:04 GMT+01:00 Pirate Praveen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:praveen@debian.org" target="_blank">praveen@debian.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_3592851416387185435moz-cite-prefix">On 12/31/2017 04:51 AM, Jérémy Lal
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<div class="gmail_quote">Sorry if i did not catch this ITP
first hand but may i point out that there are some
<div>much more popular (by several orders of magnitude), and
better maintained</div>
<div>(crc32 is six years old) alternatives out there:</div>
<div><a href="https://github.com/SheetJS/js-crc32" target="_blank">https://github.com/SheetJS/js-<wbr>crc32</a><br>
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<div><a href="https://github.com/alexgorbatchev/node-crc" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>alexgorbatchev/node-crc</a></div>
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<div>This would probably means patches for the dependent
module using crc32, yes,</div>
<div>but 1. upstream of that dependent module should
consider switching</div>
<div>and 2. the six years old module will probably require
patches as well.</div>
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This is a dependency of node-gzip-js (dependency of node-jquery 2).
We can try and convince upstream to update dependency.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ha, node-gzip-js is also outdated - it has a similar better alternative</div><div><a href="https://github.com/nodeca/pako">https://github.com/nodeca/pako</a></div><div><br></div><div>I see that node-jquery uses gzip-js only to compress dist files, no ?</div><div>It's easy to get rid of that dependency since nodejs has the zlib module</div><div>that can compress to gzip.</div><div><br></div><div>Jérémy</div></div></div></div>