Hi Joshua, Node.js is in the standard repos for most modern distros. It's not an issue for Ubuntu/Fedora.
We are using Node.js for a package called Less with does asset compression for us. Less is Apache 2 licensed so we have included it directly within Horizon: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/transition-to-lesscss Relying on Node.js actually opens up a lot of possibilities in the future for us to do realtime websocket communications via node.js and still rely on django to do the heavy lifting: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/realtime-communication All this aside, I'm a bit confused why you are asking us to justify a new dependency. (We don't have to.) What is your actual concern here? We are talking about a single package, and a single line patch to update devstack. Thanks, Devin On May 24, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Joshua Harlow wrote: > Hi all, > > I was seeing that node.js is now being used in horizon. Is there any details > on why that was needed, the reasoning, the technical docs on where it is used. > > Are there packages available in fedora/ubuntu for this? > > Such a change seems like it should have a little more reasoning/explanation > that what I found @ > https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/commit/0c2891558122aa9d030811109536caf5c81cfb75 > or https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/transition-to-lesscss > > Do we really need to have that ?? :-/ > > -Josh > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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