On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:16 AM, <craig.jenning...@gmail.com> wrote: > Specifically, NPM 5 does not accomplish #3 of your list. >
This is exactly right > I've heard that they are working on enabling that in a future release but > for now the only package manager based off of the npm registry that can > handle flat dependency trees is yarn. > > On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 9:30:14 AM UTC-5, Mark wrote: >> >> I was reading Polymer's 3.0 Preview documentation >> <https://www.polymer-project.org/blog/2017-08-23-hands-on-30-preview> >> and see that they've announced that yarn is a dependency. >> >> Why? instead of just using NPM 5 >> <https://auth0.com/blog/whats-new-in-node8-and-npm5/>, which does a lot >> of the same things yarn does? >> In the summit, they have said <https://youtu.be/JH6jEcLxJEI?t=8m20s> >> that they needed a package manager to: >> >> 1. Manages dependencies >> 2. Resolves version conflicts >> 3. Supports a flat dependency tree >> 4. Has an active community >> >> >> AFAIK, npm already does this in later versions. So why use yarn which is >> unnecessary? >> I get that yarn may be the hot dependency manager today but a lot of >> people are fine with just using npm. >> > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Polymer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to polymer-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/polymer-dev/2e9f6920-4a45-4c84-9a5d-7208653c98ba%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/2e9f6920-4a45-4c84-9a5d-7208653c98ba%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to polymer-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/CAEKsHmBJt876cOyit45LZq_4E2Z%2BUVC-ANAAfDnwP6R5cv0W7A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
