On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Richard Marr <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree there should be a way to recover from a botched release, but mutable > packages cause problems that are hard or impossible to solve in other ways. > If the reason for mutable packages is just to allow recovery from botched > releases then why not just increment the version? Anyone auto-upgrading > would be fine, anyone manually installing would be no worse off.
Yeah, speaking with my distro packager hat on, silently changing tarballs for stuff like this is really awful. And it's by no means just an npm problem, lots of open source projects like to do this, so all manner of potential problems are silently fixed with no indication to us whatsoever. Somebody runs a cronjob to check our cached copies of tarballs against whatever is upstream at the moment, but by that time you notice that some weeks have passed... -T.C. -- -- 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.
