Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

On 06/28/2015 11:09 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: > > I would still find it useful to install CoffeeScript (among others like > PhantomJS) via Portage for global use. Right now I hack on > ~/node_modules/.bin to PATH in my shell (luckily that works). It doesn't look like anyone wants to get involved w

Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

FWIW, I also bumped into this in my previous job. I even wrote this (https://github.com/neurogeek/g-npm) which is incomplete but saved me a bunch of time creating a crazy amount of npm ebuilds. My experience is, this isn't worth it. npm is a mess, is maintainer-unfriendly (although it might be ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

On 06/30/2015 03:56 AM, Ian Delaney wrote: > > Is this what I prompted about a year or more ago, and drew no interest > in pursuing the npm path? I cited an eclass called npm.eclass in a > dev's overlay. The conclusion was that using npm to install anything > competed with portage at a level that

Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:30:25 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > I recently found a need for the CoffeeScript compiler[0] that runs on > top of NodeJS. Its test suite requires a bunch of other javascript > packages, and I wound up packaging enough of them to test > CoffeeScript. > > In the process I

Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

> On 2015-06-28, at 09:30, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > https://github.com/orlitzky/npm We don't > have any standalone javascript packages in the tree at the > moment but I know there's been some interest before. Is anyone still > (planning on) working on javasc