In defense of using node. We do require that people install thrift, java, maven and git to be able to perform all development tasks. Since there is very little jvm javascript tools like Chris needs for developing a javascript heavy web front end I can understand why node could be used for development purposes.
Aaron On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Tim Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Chris Rohr <[email protected]> wrote: > > It would be for running tests and possibly packaging (not sure if this is > > needed). It would not be needed for runtime. > > I dunno, it feels a heavy (separate install required) and random > precondition to building/packaging Blur to me. I guess I really like > that the quickstart now is simply 'git clone && mvn install'. What are > the alternatives? > > Thanks, > --tim >
