The original intention, circa maybe six months ago, was to use npm for the discovery and installation. Our use case doesn't match with npm, though. It makes certain assumptions about the way versions are handled, in particular, that we can't accept, because of the global plugin namespace problem mentioned above.
Braden On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Marcel Kinard <[email protected]> wrote: > It feels like we are trying to solve something that has been solved a > thousand times before: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_management_systems > > Do we really need to be building something from scratch, or can we reuse > something that already exists? > > -- Marcel Kinard > >
