Some of you are being extremely derisive to a reasonable suggestion. You may not think it is a suggestion worth adopting, and it may not be, but it's being made seriously and has stated reasons behind it. Explain why you don't see the problem raised as enough of a problem to merit the change, but you don't need to couch your reaction in language designed to make the suggester feel small.
Developers' responses to specific questions/suggestions with "Why do you want to do that? It sounds like you're making bad decisions." is a cliche that still happens all the time, and annoys the heck out of me. On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Alex Kocharin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Trevor, > > > I'm talking about package configuration, not build configuration. gyp has > absolutely nothing to do with it. > > > -- > // alex > > > 06.01.2013, 10:27, "Trevor Norris" <[email protected]>: > > On Saturday, January 5, 2013 10:22:06 AM UTC-8, Alex Kocharin wrote: > > Hello, everybody. > > > TL;DR: I think that JSON is not a suitable config file format, and I want > npm to be able to read configs stored in some other way by default. It > might be just javascript, or yaml, I don't really care as long as it better > for configuration files than json. > > > Whether you think this or not, this has nothing directly to do with node. > npm uses gyp, which is used by Google to build v8. And because node is > built on top of v8, it makes sense node would use the same build mechanism. > Also there is a standing rule that no changes will be made to external > dependencies specifically for node. So if you wish to suggest that gyp > accept another file format along with JSON I'd suggest posting it on the > gyp mailing list (https://groups.google.com/group/gyp-developer). > > -- > 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
