Just figured out that there is actually a place for manager specific stuff, its named "overlay" http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Packages/1.1
Best, Oleg Slobodskoi http://www.facebook.com/oleg.slobodskoi https://www.xing.com/profile/Oleg_Slobodskoi https://twitter.com/oleg008 https://github.com/kof Am 04.02.2014 um 14:43 schrieb Alex Kocharin <[email protected]>: > > 04.02.2014, 17:01, "Oleg Slobodskoi" <[email protected]>: >> Am 04.02.2014 um 13:46 schrieb Alex Kocharin <[email protected]>: >> >>> >>> 1. Why JSON? This format was created for data serialization, and isn't >>> suited for maintaining by humans. >> >> We could support cjson (https://github.com/kof/node-cjson) or yml ... but I >> am not sure that json is an issue here. I personally had never a need to use >> something more expressive in this case, but I am open for it. > > YAML of course. It's the most sensible general purpose format used for config > files (unless your tool is able to change that config on the fly in which > case the issue starts to be complicated). > >> >>> 2. Isn't it better to create a format every package manager would be >>> capable of using natively? And compile out of it only as a temporary >>> measure. >> >> If you are about json vs. yml etc. ... I don't think package managers want >> to support all of them ... >> > > There were ideas about just one file with common definitions (something very > much like Dart's one - http://pub.dartlang.org/doc/pubspec.html ), but it's > extended so you can override any setting per package manager. Something like > this: > > --- > # all package managers would see that name of a package is foobar ... > name: foobar > npm: > # ... but npm would see it as node-foobar > name: node-foobar > --- > > So you can override any setting this way. > > Basically, it's a similar idea, but it's designed to be consumed by package > managers, not intermediate tools. > > The issue with one file per package manager is that you have multiple > autogenerated files in the root of your git repository. And this really needs > to be solved. > > On the other hand the question is how to convince all (at least most of) > package managers to switch to unified format... Anyway, I don't have a good > solution to this. If I was, I'd be implementing one right now. > > >> >> >>> >>> >>> 04.02.2014, 16:31, "Oleg Slobodskoi" <[email protected]>: >>>> A you tired from writing separate .json files for every package manager? >>>> >>>> Now you can write just one x-package.json file and generate from it files >>>> for any package manager. Every existing or upcoming manager is already >>>> supported. Also manager specific declarations are supported. >>>> >>>> https://github.com/kof/node-xpkg >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Oleg Slobodskoi >>>> @oleg008 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> 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. >> >> >> -- >> -- >> 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. -- -- 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. 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