I will try to flesh out a more detailed description of what I expect (theoretically) from the HTTP API exposed by an npm registry. That will be only my personal point of view, but I hope that it will help to start a productive discussion with the community.
2014-02-06 Alex Kocharin <a...@kocharin.ru>: > > +1 > > Different non-couchdb implementations already exist, but npm can change > protocol at any point of time (npm v1.3.19), and all these tools need to be > changed accordingly. > > I'd much rather see npm own protocol rather than couchdb. It feels like a > classic example of a vendor locking right now. > > > 06.02.2014, 17:14, "Francesco Mari" <mari.france...@gmail.com>: > > In the last few days I played around with a local npm registry mirror, and I > went through some code from the NPM tool and related utility modules. > > I found out that the current HTTP API exposed from the npm registry is too > tied to the CouchDB HTTP API, especially regarding authentication, > authorization and module updates (e.g. attachments API). Some parts of the > API, on the other hand, are not really useful to the core usage of the npm > tool, and I think they are mainly there to satisfy the needs of the > npmjs.org website (e.g. stars by users, stars by package, latest packages, > etc.). > > I think that the whole ecosystem could benefit from a standardization of the > core HTTP API. If we define the behaviour that the npm tool expects to > correctly work, and the core functionalities that must be supported, it > could be way easier to implement different variations of an npm server. > Given a stable API, different implementations of the npm server could be > written, with different options about data storage, additional features, > different authentication methods and so on. > > I hope that in the (near) future a community effort could be done to produce > a stable version of the npm API. What do you think about it? > > > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/wRnpyOSQqak/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
