Spoke with Morteza in IRC. So... appjs *might* be an exception for now. But once we have binary deployments working, it's going to have to be changed around significantly, because as a matter of policy and practical reality, bundled-binaries and custom install scripts will not be effective. Gyp-based install scripts will be optimized and strongly preferred.
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected]> wrote: > !!?!? > > What is this thing we're actually talking about? > > If your module is 12GB, takes 2 hours to compile, or includes a copy > of WebKit or Chromium in it, then perhaps it's bigger than what you > should be installing using npm. Also, 12GB of source is certainly > nowhere near a 12GB gzipped tarball. In fact, your 300MB binaries are > very likely harder to compress. (There are exceptions, of course. > Maybe the repository contains a file with 12GB of /dev/random which > the compiler ignores.) > > But anyway, it could be that's a large project, not a node module. > Deploy it the old fashioned way, like node does, by putting tarballs > on a website and building binaries for architectures where it is > reasonable to do so. > > It's suboptimal, but it's sometimes quite reasonable to say, "You have > to download and install xyz to use this module". Maybe you could just > have people install webkit themselves, and write your little binding > as a thing that talks to it. The 'redis' module doesn't install redis > for you. The libmysql module doesn't install mysql. You wouldn't > expect a rubygems or cpan module to install Chrome. > > Think of your users' experience. It's not just the install-time > experience. They're actually going to *use* this thing, right? A > module that ships as a binary is virtually impossible to debug. A > module that ships as 12GB of code is probably just as bad, if not > worse. That's an application. Treat it like one. > > > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Brandon Benvie <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Modules that have WebKit/Chromium in them. >> >> >> On Sunday, May 6, 2012 8:53:02 PM UTC-4, Isaac Schlueter wrote: >>> >>> What modules take an hour to compile? >>> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
