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Scriptable Headless Browser
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What exactly is the status of PhantomJS? #15275

Closed admosity closed 6 years ago

admosity commented 6 years ago

Looks like there was a release recently on Jan 10 and looks like @pixiuPL made the bulk of the changes... So what exactly is PhantomJS's current status? There was a large stir that PhantomJS was no longer being maintained during the mid of last year: #15105.

There has been much talk about moving off of PhantomJS because of its deprecation/maintenance status, but if there's some degree of maintenance, we may not need to do that all.

Edit: Sorry if this is bloating the already long issue list. I just haven't seen/heard any notice about PhantomJS being maintained again.

ghost commented 6 years ago

@admosity Hello and thanks for this issue. Yes, Ive made some changes recently, most notable being release of new version of PJS (2.1.3).

Truth is - I spoke with @ariya on Skype some time ago (month or so) and he gave me push access to this repo. So Im doing my best for PJS to stay alive. I can see that ones who was once with flag Contributor are (pretty much) no longer active. So, to be completely honest, as its now, Im the only one contributor thats active (meaning working with PJS & its repo daily).

First thing Ive done was to merge/solve PRs that had been opened as far back as 2015.... many of them had conflicts, but most of them was just sitting there waiting to be merged..... As of PR : if you want to make change to PJS, feel free to open PR.....we will collaborate.

SebP77 commented 6 years ago

Hello, I really hope that the community will leave again, because I am a user of PhantomJS, which could give life to this project, it is to take into account this: PhantomJS does not support many ES6 features including the keyword const(https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/14650)

Thk

jesg commented 6 years ago

@SebP77 to be fair you are not running the current release 2.1.3.

ghost commented 6 years ago

@SebP77 doing my best for this community to live again..... no worries :) We are well aware of #14650, so let me investigate it and get back as soon as I find solution. I mean -> from #14650 you see its been merged, so there shouldnt be causing troubles, but will look into it.

SebP77 commented 6 years ago

On the Site: http://phantomjs.org/download.html, we have 2.1.1, where can I find this version 2.1.3? Do I have to change the version of CasperJS too? thk

ghost commented 6 years ago

@SebP77 Will fix that now and report back

SebP77 commented 6 years ago

thk

I just saw this in: https://github.com/casperjs/casperjs/pull/1857

I see that there are versions of PhantomJS in CasperJS. Is it possible to provide me a Zip that contains the right version of PhantomJS and CasperJS compiled (Win 64b or Win 32b) that works well together. If I have to replace them in my tests, I would need the last and good version to not break anything. What is important for me is to be able to manage the Const and the last functionality of the Browser IE11 and Edge. Thank you in advance for your help.

ghost commented 6 years ago

@SebP77 yes thats possible. You just have to wait. Im prepairing my Windows 2016 dev/test enviroment. Will re-build, package, test and upload ZIPped 2.1.3 for Windows today and update this issue. So just be patient please.

SebP77 commented 6 years ago

ok, no problem, thk ;-)

ghost commented 6 years ago

@SebP77 This issue is taking more time than I suspected it'd take. Please be patient

SebP77 commented 6 years ago

no problem i'm patient ;-)

PrzemekCh commented 6 years ago

hi @pixiuPL what about the osx 2.1.3 package - I'm trying to download the latest version but instead phantomjs-2.1.3-macosx.zip I'm getting a DMS file? What is this DMS file anyway?

ghost commented 6 years ago

I've no idea. I'm not on Mac and it wasn't me who packed it