Quoting Leo Iannacone (2014-09-07 10:21:24) > On 6 September 2014 14:30, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Quoting Jérémy Lal (2014-09-06 14:16:21) >>> Le samedi 06 septembre 2014 à 12:59 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit >>> : >>>> Newest node-postgres seems to need these modules missing in Debian: >>>> >>>> "buffer-writer": "1.0.0", >>>> "pgpass": "0.0.3", >>>> "packet-reader": "0.2.0", >>>> "pg-connection-string": "0.1.1", >>>> "pg-types": "1.4.0" >>>> >>>> Help is much appreciated getting those packaged! >>> >>> I'm pretty sure i could team up with Leo (if he's available) to get >>> the packages done in the day... but there's an ongoing discussion >>> about bundling modules, so i wonder if it is a good occasion to start >>> one. >>> >>> What do you think ? >> >> I am no fan of bundling! >> >> I appreciate the concern for keeping resources tight, but have seen no >> actual measurements as to the damage caused by tracking upstream >> projects individually - and I see a real damage to bundling in that it >> weakens tracking our upstreams (are bundled jQuery plugins up-to-date? >> How to check that - as a developer and as a user?). >> >> Perl team has recently gone _away_ from bundling modules. >> >> ...but I still remember when I adviced you to not taking serious the >> complaints about the "node" name - we lost ~3 years on that account :-( >> >> So I guess my advice is to _not_ listen directly to what I think, but >> only take it as inspiration - try distinguish between noise and >> substantial parts from those frowning upon tiny packages. I agree that >> a package containing essentially a single line of code is insane. >> >> What do anyone in the team think? > > > Are we messing up with those small modules?
If it works, then it works! If you can manage to track upstream changes and keep the bundle-packages sensibly up-to-date and their contents is reasonably easy to locate for our users, then I guess it is a success. > And... should we have a "max-lines-of-code" number under of that the > module should go in a multi-module package ? I am sceptical to such quantitative measure. But then again, I am sceptical to the whole approach so should probably step back and let those exploring the approach discuss here :-) My point was not that recent activities on bundling tiny Node packages has failed, but that a) I most likely won't participate in that and b) I recommend to beware if really needed (do the critical voices in Debian indicate real trouble e.g. with Policy or just a loud minority opinion). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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