Very cool Alan! One recommendation though is to move "coffee-script" to "devDependencies" and then publish the compiled JS to npm, rather than (or alongside) the .coffee file. As a non-coffee user, I shouldn't have to install "coffe-script" if I wanna use your module.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Alan Hoffmeister <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, everything went fine, but as I could see node-tar need some more > documentation.. Was kinda hard to find how to do the things in the "dark". > The results of everything was that I created a package[1] that can natively > tar.gz folders and untar.gz, so I don't have to code that all again :) > > 1 - https://github.com/cranic/node-tar.gz > > -- > Att, > Alan Hoffmeister > > > > 2012/12/6 Alan Hoffmeister <[email protected]> >> >> Thanks Nathan, I'm testing it right now, I'll post some feedback. >> >> -- >> Att, >> Alan Hoffmeister >> >> >> >> 2012/12/5 Nathan Rajlich <[email protected]> >>> >>> Well you could use node-tar[0] to create a tarball of the directory, >>> and then use the zlib[1] module to compress the tarball using gzip. >>> Essentially creating a .tar.gz in the end. >>> >>> [0]: https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar >>> [1]: http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/zlib.html >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Alan Hoffmeister >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hello there, >>> > >>> > I'm working on a backup tool using Node.js, but I couldn't find any >>> > native >>> > package that work with hight compression algos and folder compression. >>> > >>> > I need this because the script will run on Windows and Unix systems. >>> > My preferences are xz (isn't it the official name for lzma2?), lzma, >>> > bzip2 >>> > and gzip. >>> > >>> > Thanks! >>> > -- >>> > Att, >>> > Alan Hoffmeister >>> > >>> > -- >>> > 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 >> >> > > -- > 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
