It's not clear from this thread what you want exactly. You want to name your modules whatever you want, not use namespaces, have them on npm, and also avoid name collision? How exactly do you see that working?
:Marco On Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:06:28 AM UTC-7, stagas wrote: > > 2013/5/25 Alex Kocharin <al...@equenext.com <javascript:>>: > > > >> Whoever likes can publish to npm, whoever likes can push to Github. > Both > >> should be given equal chance of discovery though. > > > > Github is a tool for development, npm registry is a tool for deployment. > Am > > I missing something here? By the way, mix of those two is very well > known to > > create serious trouble (https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/1727). > > > > Also, there was a holywar in npm issues about namespacing... I guess > > anything about "proper naming" has been said there already: > > https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/798 > > > > They're both public data containers that you upload stuff into. One > has a single namespace, the other has a username-based namespace. > What's for "deployment" and what's for "development" are purely > personal choices. > > > > > On Saturday, May 25, 2013 3:49:36 PM UTC, stagas wrote: > >> > >> 2013/5/25 Alex Kocharin <al...@equenext.com>: > >> > > >> > It's an answer to unrelated question. If a package is intended to be > >> > used in > >> > public, it should be in public registry (npmjs.org). If it's for > >> > internal > >> > use, github will do fine. > >> > > >> > But namespaces could do the job if you publish a package with a name > >> > like > >> > "stagas.merge". It's quite uncommon though. > >> > > >> > >> I want both visibility and proper naming. That logic isn't valid. > >> Github is very public. We just need to find a way to index these along > >> with the rest npm modules. Whoever likes can publish to npm, whoever > >> likes can push to Github. Both should be given equal chance of > >> discovery though. > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > On Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:39:19 PM UTC+4, Jonathan Ong wrote: > >> >> > >> >> just don't bother publishing it. use github namespaces in npm. > >> >> > >> >> { > >> >> "dependencies": { > >> >> "merge": "stagas/merge" > >> >> } > >> >> } > >> >> > >> >> On Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:34:51 AM UTC-7, Alex Kocharin wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> RPG name generator could do the job. :) > >> >>> > >> >>> -- > >> >>> // alex > >> >>> > >> >>> 25.05.2013, 10:49, "George Stagas" <gst...@gmail.com>: > >> >>> > Hi all, > >> >>> > > >> >>> > I really want to name my modules however I like and be > installable > >> >>> > and > >> >>> > require-able. > >> >>> > > >> >>> > For example, I want to write a 'merge' utility, and I don't want > to > >> >>> > struggle coming up with a random set of letters because I want my > >> >>> > code > >> >>> > to read require('merge') not require('golalamergifiable'). > >> >>> > > >> >>> > What are my options currently? 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