On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Paolo Greppi wrote: > babel-preset-env is an essential component of babel: > https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/preset-env > > babel is a sort of "compiler" that translates from bleeding-edge javascript > to older, more widespread standard versions (such as the javascript that > runs in a browser). > It's a very successful project at the moment, see for example: > https://tomdale.net/2017/09/compilers-are-the-new-frameworks/ > It is written in javascript itself so it makes sense that it must > be bootstrapped like gcc.
This seems pretty cool, but is there a reason why babel can't just bootstrap itself from its own source package? Just checking briefly, its makefile[1] seems to have code to bootstrap itself. Also, have you discussed this with Thorsten or another ftp master directly? Perhaps they just rejected it because the reasoning for the build-dependency was not clear, nor was it clear how to bootstrap babel to generate the first package. 1: https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/Makefile#L128 -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com -tommorow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_
