Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

2015-07-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/28/2015 11:09 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: I would still find it useful to install CoffeeScript (among others like PhantomJS) via Portage for global use. Right now I hack on ~/node_modules/.bin to PATH in my shell (luckily that works). It doesn't look like anyone wants to get involved with

Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

2015-06-30 Thread Ian Delaney
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:30:25 -0400 Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote: I recently found a need for the CoffeeScript compiler[0] that runs on top of NodeJS. Its test suite requires a bunch of other javascript packages, and I wound up packaging enough of them to test CoffeeScript. In the

Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

2015-06-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/30/2015 03:56 AM, Ian Delaney wrote: Is this what I prompted about a year or more ago, and drew no interest in pursuing the npm path? I cited an eclass called npm.eclass in a dev's overlay. The conclusion was that using npm to install anything competed with portage at a level that

Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

2015-06-30 Thread Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
FWIW, I also bumped into this in my previous job. I even wrote this (https://github.com/neurogeek/g-npm) which is incomplete but saved me a bunch of time creating a crazy amount of npm ebuilds. kinda rant My experience is, this isn't worth it. npm is a mess, is maintainer-unfriendly (although it

[gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

2015-06-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
I recently found a need for the CoffeeScript compiler[0] that runs on top of NodeJS. Its test suite requires a bunch of other javascript packages, and I wound up packaging enough of them to test CoffeeScript. In the process I wrote an eclass to handle packages hosted on the npm registry[1] and

Re: [gentoo-dev] NPM / NodeJS project

2015-06-28 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 2015-06-28, at 09:30, Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote: https://github.com/orlitzky/npm https://github.com/orlitzky/npmWe don't have any standalone javascript packages in the tree at the moment but I know there's been some interest before. Is anyone still (planning on) working