I was planning on emailing him a patch, probably after I wrote some tests to 
ensure I wasn't submitting him something with issues.

- Trevor

On Feb 1, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Platonides wrote:

> Trevor Parscal wrote:
>> There are 2 components to the JavaScriptDistiller library. One of them (the 
>> ParseMaster class) is 100% in sync with the official distribution. The other 
>> (the JavaScriptDistiller class) was originally based on the 
>> JavaScriptPacker::_basicCompression function. That function had some issues 
>> that we have worked out, and in the process of doing that we've gotten 
>> really far away from the original source. It appears that our version is 
>> just about stable, so I plan to offer the code in JavaScriptDistiller to the 
>> JavaScriptPacker author to try and help make his library better as well.
>> 
>> In the former case, any changes should be strictly passed upstream. In the 
>> latter case, I think we should offer them upstream but realize that we have 
>> deviated from the original author's structure and possibly intentions enough 
>> that they may or may not be wanted.
>> 
>> - Trevor
> 
> How should they be sent upstream? I did for instance a small change at
> r81207, but given that we don't have any tests, decided to wait before
> annoying the upstream author (I think that would be Nicolas?).
> I don't see a repository there, so we could as well offer him space for
> it in our hierarchy.
> 
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