Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: reviewboard and its bugs

2014-08-20 Thread Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
I originally responded to another thread. Here is what I said: I gave this a try some time ago and was bummed down by some things. I dont like nodejs enough, and npm devs seems to not care about centrally/globally installed packages. There are some npm packages that have to be modified so they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: reviewboard and its bugs

2014-08-20 Thread Tim Boudreau
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) neurog...@gentoo.org wrote: I originally responded to another thread. Here is what I said: I gave this a try some time ago and was bummed down by some things. I dont like nodejs enough, and npm devs seems to not care about

[gentoo-dev] Fw: reviewboard and its bugs

2014-08-19 Thread IAN DELANEY
Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:45:21 +0800 From: IAN DELANEY idel...@gentoo.org To: gentoo-pyt...@lists.gentoo.org Subject: reviewboard and its bugs cancel the gentoo-python@lists, was intended for gentoo-dev@lists The package reviewboard has reached a stage of warranting

tl;dr: [gentoo-dev] Fw: reviewboard and its bugs

2014-08-19 Thread Alex Xu
tl;dr: python package has nodejs dependencies, we don't have a mechanism like distutils.eclass to install those system-wide. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: tl;dr: [gentoo-dev] Fw: reviewboard and its bugs

2014-08-19 Thread Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Alex Xu alex_y...@yahoo.ca wrote: tl;dr: python package has nodejs dependencies, we don't have a mechanism like distutils.eclass to install those system-wide. I gave this a try some time ago and was bummed down by some things. I dont like nodejs enough, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: reviewboard and its bugs

2014-08-19 Thread Tim Boudreau
FWIW, I suspect npm is here to stay, and it has a facility for installing system-wide utilities; and NodeJS is both usable and convenient for system-level scripting which has no connection to webapps, and has the ability to build native code that integrates with NodeJS code as well. IMO, it