❦ 5 juin 2016 10:13 CEST, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> :
> this is not about these two specific packages, I'm rather wondering > how to deal with an ecosystem where it seems to be normal to release > tiny tiny packages… (*) > > On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 03:25:48AM +0200, Jonathan Ulrich Horn wrote > "Bug#826371: ITP: node-camelcase-keys -- Convert object keys to > camelCase": We already had this conversation 6 months ago: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/11/msg00008.html My summary is: - many npm packages are small because people in the Node.JS ecosystem consider this is a good practice to do small packages that do one thing well [1]. - many npm packages are small because code size is important for client-side stuff and npm packages can easily be used client-side (with browserify and the like) - stuffing unrelated packages into a big package (like emacs-goodies-el) is considered a bad solution as it usually leads to outdated packages and additional burden on maintainers due to our tooling not handling that well So, no solution but I think that the consensus was we shouldn't get in the way. > FTR: "apt-cache search node|grep ^node|wc -l" returns 382 today. http://www.modulecounts.com/ (near 300k packages in npm). [1]: About the first point, see also: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-117766328. It's a "funny" answer since some of the provided examples are modules that don't do their job correctly. For example, it advertises the "supports-color" module which is so wrong in how it does things. See yourself: https://github.com/chalk/supports-color/blob/master/index.js This library checks command flags for overriding the result. If you have a CI environment variable, no color for you. If you have a COLORTERM variable, only 16 colors for you. If you have vt100 as TERM, you get colors, but not if you have rxvt-unicode. And upstream thinks that this is just fine: https://github.com/chalk/supports-color/pull/35 I show this example, because I think this is representative of the "do one thing well" opinion in the ecosystem while such a dogmatic position could also lead to the reverse. IMO, such a module also prevents better alternatives to be developed since people will stick with the small module that works well with iTerm2 on OSX. Sorry for the rant. -- Follow each decision as closely as possible with its associated action. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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