text-encoding npm package no longer maintained? Do we care?

[jrayback]

Please see here and here. Package is no longer being maintained. The last commit to the source code was in 2018. Do we care? I can't seem to find any real better alternative (cursory search). Functionality might be, essentially, static and not an issue. Lack of security patching, etc. might be concerning, however.

[kentbull]

The TextEncoder package is now integrated into browsers. See WebOfTrust/signify-ts#134
It can be dropped in favor of the built-in at this point.

[jrayback]

Yeah, looks like in this case it just requires importing TextEncoder and TextDecoder from node:util instead of text-encoding. I'll fix it.

[lenkan]

@jrayback it is actually available on global in node.js and on window in browsers. So you do not need to import anything, it is available in the global namespace. Actually, I do not think it will work in the browser if you import it from node:util. See https://nodejs.org/api/globals.html#textencoder and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextEncoder

[jrayback]

OK. Yeah. Thanks. I see now. It doesn't require any import statement at all. Once the main code commit is completed, I'll fast follow-on a small change to close out this issue. Thanks for the help.