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

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

No, but I had to do some tap dancing, if I recall.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Andrey Chudnov <achudnov at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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> 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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