[Haskell-cafe] Request for maintainer(s) : language-javascript / hjsmin

[Andrey Chudnov]

Thank you, Alan,
I'll have a look at the tests in hjsmin. AFAIK, you are using alex and 
happy for the parser. Does that cause any issues with Automatic 
Semicolon Insertion?

On 07/06/2015 03:16 PM, Alan & Kim Zimmerman wrote:
> Hi Andrey
>
> 1. I did update it when ECMASCRIPT 5.1 when it came out for version 
> 0.4.6 of language-javascript (according to the ChangeLog). The test 
> suite is very comprehensive.
>
> 2. I am not familiar with language-ecmascript. The main feature of 
> language-javascript is that it is written using lex/alex, so is pretty 
> fast. That said, the AST itself could be improved, I was learning when 
> I did it.
>
> 3. I think a merge could definitely make sense. I know hjsmin is very 
> intimately tied to language-javascript, so a port might be quite 
> tricky. There are also lots of tests on hjsmin.
>
> I would obviously be prepared to guide anyone taking over this role, 
> and to answer questions about the code.
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Andrey Chudnov <achudnov at gmail.com 
> <mailto:achudnov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Alan,
>     I'm not volunteering (yet), but I have a few questions:
>     1) Could you sum up the status of the package? Is there complete
>     ECMAScript 5.1 support? How comprehensive is the test suite?
>     2) Are you familiar with language-ecmascript (particularly, with
>     the es5 branch
>     https://github.com/jswebtools/language-ecmascript/tree/es5)? If
>     so, what do you think are the main strengths of
>     language-javascript compared to that package?
>     3) Do you think it would make sense to merge language-javascript
>     and language-ecmascript and port hjsmin to that?
>
>     /Andrey
>
>
>     On 07/06/2015 02:42 PM, Alan & Kim Zimmerman wrote:
>>     Hi all
>>
>>     I am the author of language-javascript and its companion hjsmin.
>>     Unfortunately I do not use the libraries myself, and I am falling
>>     behind in maintaining them, all the more so with the new
>>     ECMASCRIPT spec out.
>>
>>     So I am calling for volunteers to take over maintenance of these
>>     two packages.
>>
>>     Regards
>>       Alan
>>
>>
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