Fair enough, but I'd like to underline that FUD is not an insult, rather
the description of some misleading or speculative information and, as such,
rarely constructive for any discussion.
Maybe I misunderstood the email, however ...
> npm ... brings the undesirable hundreds of package dependenci
Hi Andrea,
People can have different opinions about npm, or node tools, or the best
way to package things, or the best way forward for GJS, or criticize your
contributions, or anyone's contributions, and they need to be able to do
that on this mailing list without being demolished. Everyone who
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People are distributing Desktop applications via Electron, which also needs
double modules when it's native and as of today, we do need to say to
developers that GJS cannot consume npm modules.
Differently, from Gtk, The GNOME SDK is confined into the Linux world ...
or at least that's my impressi
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:30 PM Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> npm is just a repository.
>
> A repository exists in Python, Ruby, ArchLinux (AUR), Debian, etcetera.
>
> A repository purpose is to publish a program/module/library that can be
> reused across projects.
>
>
npm is just a repository.
A repository exists in Python, Ruby, ArchLinux (AUR), Debian, etcetera.
A repository purpose is to publish a program/module/library that can be
reused across projects.
A repository doesn't force you to create dependencies.
A repository doesn't need your code to be com
One of the issues I have with NPM support, is that then brings the
undesirable hundreds of package dependencies through encouraging the
use of them.
If someone *does* use NPM packages and creates an app with this
support, then that introduces some seriously big headaches with
packaging for distros.
If until now GJS ignored the rest of the world in terms of JS modules and
the ability to use npm as registry, I believe I'm not the one that can
answer that question but I am 100% sure if you want GJS to be more popular,
you need a better JS ecosystem integration, and npm is mandatory step zero
to
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:16 PM Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah, that's why I need help/contributors there.
>
> The fs is relatively trivial, streams are more painful but in JSGtk the fs
> was already working.
>
> I am just starting porting over and improving JSGtk, t
yeah, that's why I need help/contributors there.
The fs is relatively trivial, streams are more painful but in JSGtk the fs
was already working.
I am just starting porting over and improving JSGtk, today you have already
console globally available, util in core (and timers) and I'm working on
os,
On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 22:50 -0300, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
> FYI the whole project has been moved under a CGJS organization:
> https://github.com/cgjs/cgjs
>
> If you'd like to contribute please rise your hand and I'll add you.
>
> So far working:
> require, console, __filename, __dirname, and a
FYI the whole project has been moved under a CGJS organization:
https://github.com/cgjs/cgjs
If you'd like to contribute please rise your hand and I'll add you.
So far working:
- require, console, __filename, __dirname, and all timers in place
- next up: process module
Each core module ca
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