Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> writes: > ❦ 13 avril 2015 10:37 +0100, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> : > > > I presume that we can agree that, if someone started offering a web > > service compiling C code with output an order of magnitude better in > > every dimension than gcc can achieve, we still wouldn't use it for > > our binaries (at least not unless it were available as free software > > that we could host ourselves). What makes JavaScript worthy of > > special treatment? > > It is an interpreted language and "compiled" source can sometimes be > considered as a pristine source too (for example, concatenation).
No, a concatenated bundle – the compiled form – is not the preferred form for making modifications to the work. So it's not the source form. When making modifications to the compiled work, the preferred form is the un-bundled, un-minimised JavaScript. That's what needs to be the source form for building Debian packages. -- \ “If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd | `\ better not start writing it.” —Edsger W. Dijkstra | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/85oamrv80c....@benfinney.id.au
