[Pkg-javascript-devel] browserify-lite

[Jérémy Lal]

Le vendredi 03 octobre 2014 à 01:06 -0700, Andrew Kelley a écrit :
> On Oct 2, 2014 11:49 PM, "Jérémy Lal" <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
> >
> > Le jeudi 02 octobre 2014 à 20:57 -0700, Andrew Kelley a écrit :
> > > To provide a possible alternative for upstream projects which depend on
> > > browserify, which is a heavy dependency dragging many things along with
> it,
> > > I have created a module called browserify-lite:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/andrewrk/browserify-lite
> > >
> > > My question, should I package this module for Debian? Or is it *too*
> > > "lite"? :-)
> > >
> > > Groove Basin already depends on it for its build system:
> > >
> https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/commit/174af756e1dc2ca148e10a8848fb7db83b100378
> >
> > Great !
> > What modifications are required to port a build script using browserify
> > to browserify-lite ?
> 
> It depends on how complicated the usage of browserify is. If it is very
> simple, then it might make sense to use browserify-lite, anything even
> slightly advanced and we would be better off packaging the real browserify.
> 
> Anything in particular you're interested in?

Only building libjs-* files - i think it falls into the "very simple"
category for many of them !
I opened an issue requesting a little more documentation for
browserify-lite.


> > Would it be better to use uglifyjs ast parser ?
> 
> Possibly. The tokenizer I coded up should probably be fine, but maybe since
> we already have uglifyjs packaged it would make sense to use that.

fine,
thank you for this

Jérémy