Re: [gentoo-dev] [Proposal] Eclass for nodejs modules

[Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)]

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:

> On 02/29/2016 06:24 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> > On 29/02/16 03:23, Geaaru wrote:
> >>
> >> In conclusion, it seems that is not accepted use of nodejs modules
> >> ebuild inside portage. It is right?
> >>
> >>
> > There used to be a CoffeeScript ebuild if you search back. I do not
> > remember how it worked but IIRC I think it was basically just creating a
> > fake root for itself. The distfile itself was just that node_modules/
> > directory in a tarball. No direction on how those dependencies could be
> > shared, so it is no longer in the tree.
> >
>
> I really needed it for one program, so I'm maintaining coffee-script in
> the tree now as dev-lang/coffee-script. I have an eclass and some
> ebuilds using it at https://github.com/orlitzky/npm but I didn't want to
> wind up in charge of a NodeJS project and nobody else did either, so I'm
> no longer working on it. The current coffee-script ebuild copy/pastes
> some of the stuff that would have been handled by the eclass.
>
> Only misery lies down this path.

Couldn't have said it better. Many of us have tried:
https://github.com/neurogeek/g-npm
https://github.com/neurogeek/gentoo-overlay/tree/master/dev-nodejs

npm just doesn't care about "global" installs, so it is broken by design
for any centralized package manager:
https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/issues/438

Just use npm.


> Every upstream project is a mess and
> nobody cares, because implicitly, their roadmaps all involve realizing
> that javascript is awful and abandoning the project. To get this stuff
> in the tree, we would need a full-time devoted developer who just loves
> javascript and is sexually aroused by having his time wasted.
>
>
>


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Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
Gentoo Developer