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Re: [GSOC] Contributing to git.

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 3, 2012, 09:03 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 3, 2012, Nazri Ramliy wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:26 AM, jaseem abid <jaseemabid@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > It feels like too much for this project. Do we need all the features
> > from these projects? As far as I can understand, you need phantom.js
> > to be installed in your local development machine, which is a new
> > dependency.  I have an instruction from the community not to add new
> > dependencies.
> 
> Ah that is true. I forgot about the overhead of getting phantomjs installed.

Well, we would need to have some JavaScript engine installed for running tests from commandline, be it Google Chrome's V8 (e.g. node.js), Mozilla's SpiderMonkey, or WebKit (e.g. phantomjs).

Though I think that having a page with JavaScript tests, to be opened and checked in browser would be enough for a start.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. jaseem abidMar 30, 2012
  2. Jeff KingMar 30, 2012
  3. jaseem abidMar 30, 2012
  4. Jakub NarebskiMar 30, 2012
  5. chaitanyaa nallaMar 30, 2012
  6. Jakub NarebskiMar 30, 2012
  7. chaitanyaa nallaMar 30, 2012
  8. jaseem abidMar 30, 2012
  9. jaseem abidMar 30, 2012
  10. Jakub NarebskiMar 30, 2012
  11. Nazri RamliyApr 2, 2012
  12. jaseem abidApr 2, 2012
  13. Nazri RamliyApr 3, 2012
  14. Jakub NarebskiApr 3, 2012
  15. Andrew SayersMar 30, 2012

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