[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] package: bring two host tools

["Alexis Lothoré via buildroot" <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello,
this small series aims to bring two new host packages to ease the
integration of web apps onto embedded platforms:
- uglifyjs ([1]), used to minify frontend assets,
- sass ([2]), a css extension adding programmation features to css.

Those two tools come in the shape of binaries installed in the host
directory. The use case supported by those new packages is the
possibility to run mini_asset ([3]) on host during some custom package
build, with uglifyjs and sass being two dependencies of it. The series
does not bring a mini_asset package though, as it can be brought by the
custom composer file in the final application project.

This use case kind of similar to what have been proposed in the past
with BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_NODEJS_MODULES_ADDITIONAL ([4]). At this time, the
proposal was rejected, and Arnout rather suggested to create dedicated
packages for this kind of host tools. This series follows this
suggestion, hoping that it is still the most relevant solution, 4 years
later. Another important point to mention is that the second package is
fetching some deps (npm install) at build step, which is not ideal, but
also suggested in Arnout's initial proposal. If that's not desired
anymore, I'm open to some guidance to improve this.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/uglify-js
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/sass
[3] https://github.com/markstory/mini-asset
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/buildroot/20220119140703.12978-1-tom.marcuzzi@orolia.com/

---
Alexis Lothoré (2):
      package/uglifyjs: new package
      package/sass: new package

 DEVELOPERS                                         |  2 ++
 package/Config.in.host                             |  2 ++
 package/sass/Config.in.host                        |  8 ++++++
 package/sass/sass.hash                             |  3 +++
 package/sass/sass.mk                               | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 package/uglifyjs/Config.in.host                    |  7 +++++
 package/uglifyjs/uglifyjs.hash                     |  3 +++
 package/uglifyjs/uglifyjs.mk                       | 23 +++++++++++++++++
 support/testing/tests/package/test_sass.py         | 23 +++++++++++++++++
 .../tests/package/test_sass/sample_sass.scss       |  7 +++++
 support/testing/tests/package/test_uglifyjs.py     | 23 +++++++++++++++++
 .../tests/package/test_uglifyjs/sample_uglifyjs.js |  5 ++++
 12 files changed, 136 insertions(+)
---
base-commit: 3c5c058d156daaba2901e539395a842d2bafd1e6
change-id: 20260806-host_tools-89a53a630ff7

Best regards,
--  
Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>

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