In bin scripts, do '#!/usr/bin/env node --harmony_whatever' as your shebang line. In library modules, test and throw a useful error right away.
And as others have said, document it in the readme. On Saturday, December 29, 2012, Tristan Slominski wrote: > That makes sense.. and as you say, it is well established in JS. I don't > see any other sane way of accomplishing that. It works for my use case, > I'll make sure it's obvious in the README as well. Thanks. > > On Saturday, December 29, 2012 7:13:54 PM UTC-6, Bradley Meck wrote: >> >> If you are using a non-standard (harmony) expectation in your library you >> should test and bail on an environment that does not supply the interfaces >> expected. I think throwing on missing expectations is one solution the >> other is to require a shim if the expectation is not present. Both are >> pretty de-facto in JS. Putting this into package.json etc would mean that >> you are requiring CLI switches that are non-standard to be in place. >> Shimming and throwing are perfectly valid for this case. >> >> I see this as little difference from requiring a peer module or a module >> that expects a non-present global variable (lots of tests suites bootstrap >> in globals, errors are usually but not always obvious due to this). >> > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > nodejs@googlegroups.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'nodejs@googlegroups.com');> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'nodejs%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
