Sure thing Stephen! I am the author of winser and I gave my point of view on your project and as I said it looks *very nice*, I will consider next time i have to deploy something to a windows server.
for me node.js is about alternatives, so i am really glad winser is not the only option to run node programs as windows services now regards 2013/2/22 Stephen Vickers <[email protected]> > I should also add, I don't want to appear to be critical of WinSer, or > nssm.exe for that matter. It's just that I have my own motivations, > requirements and preferences, as do the authors of those programs. > > > On Friday, 22 February 2013 12:17:56 UTC, Stephen Vickers wrote: >> >> Hi Jeremy, >> >> A number of small reasons why I would use windows-service instead (some >> people may consider some of these points moot, I don't): >> >> - Node.js and program path detection is automatic and obvious >> - Supports spaces in service names (although this could be fixed >> quite easily in WinSer) >> - Doesn't depend on npm to add, remove and run services >> - Doesn't depend on nssm.exe which means one less task of trying to >> keep that up to date (not assuming the module author will always want to >> update nssm.exe to the latest version when available) >> - Which also may have library dependency issues - unless >> you compile it yourself >> >> Then there a couple of major reasons, which are probably >> more in-line with my requirements. >> >> I've already written something similar for Perl, for the company I work >> for, but have never been allowed to make that code public. >> >> I'm just getting into Node.js with the view of writing an application >> delivered using a Windows installer (NSIS based) as the end systems will >> have no build environment available. >> >> So, in part this was a learning exercise to see if it was possible, and >> to remove dependency on npm for a deployed application. >> >> It's also worth considering that the service code base is much smaller >> than the nssm.exe code base, and this is not a criticism of nssm.exe (quite >> the opposite, it seems like a very good program), the point is that there >> is less to go wrong and maintain. >> >> Steve >> >> On Friday, 22 February 2013 03:06:14 UTC, Jeremy wrote: >>> >>> What is the difference in this and WinSer using NSSM? I'm not picking >>> I'm just curious. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Stephen Vickers <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I've created a new module named "windows-service" providing the ability >>>> to run Node.JS programs as native Windows Services. >>>> >>>> The new module can be installed using npm: >>>> >>>> https://npmjs.org/package/**windows-service<https://npmjs.org/package/windows-service> >>>> >>>> Steve >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>>> Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/**node/wiki/Mailing-List- >>>> **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<http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
