Hi! I am a big fan of Pulsar[1] so I filed the ITP[2] for it which led me to dive into the status of Electron[3] and NodeJS and JavaScript in Debian in general.
Electron seems already to be shipped[4] among others in FreeBSD ports, Arch, Manjaro, Nix and OpenSUSE, but not in Fedora or Debian. The approach in Debian seems to be that each npm module is converted into a deb package, and thus the JS team has 1700+ packages to maintain[5]. Electron packaging has been pending for the past 7 years due to this packaging dependency requirement I assume. So I guess the logical next step is just to map out all dependencies of Electron (and Pulsar) and then simply get each npm module they depend on packaged one-by-one? Can somebody who has a working setup of js_task_edit.py[6] update the Electron wiki page and also create a new one for Pulsar? And once we have the list we can start using npm2deb[7] and following the NodeJS packaging guide[8] we just package the modules and see how far we get with reasonable effort? - Otto [1] https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/pulsar-best-text-file-and-code-editor/ [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1060778 [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842420 [4] https://repology.org/project/electron/versions [5] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-javascript-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org [6] https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Tasks [7] https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Npm2Deb [8] https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Manual
