Re: [iot-pmc] Vote for Paho CQs - JavaScript & WebSockets

[Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jens,

we only ship the client JavaScript code, plus a minified version of it.  
The code is interpreted by the environment in which it is running, so 
no, we don't ship a JavaScript nor WebSocket implementation.

Ian

On 04/11/2016 08:18 AM, Jens Reimann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are two more CQs from Paho which we did not process in the past
> batches:
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11175 - JavaScript
> http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11176 - WebSockets API
>
> So to my understanding these are different than just "Web Browser" since
> these Paho components actually run in a web browser and therefore
> require both technologies.
>
> I think we have again the situation of having one specification and
> multiple implementations here. JavaScript gets implemented by different
> engines and there different implementations of the WebSockets API. And
> to my knowledge Paho could possibly also run inside Node.JS with some
> Node.JS based WebSockets API. So no need for a web browser at all.
>
> Also, as far as I understood it, Paho will ship neither a JavaScript nor
> WebSockets implementation. It expects those to be there.
>
> So both CQs sound like a pre-requisite exempt to me.
>
> Jens

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Ian Craggs
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Paho Project Lead; Committer on Mosquitto