Re: jquery 3.1.1

[Catonano]

2017-01-20 22:23 GMT+01:00 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:

Hi!

Catonano <address@hidden> skribis:

> I made a crawler and I let it loose on the jquery 3.1.1 dependencies on
> registry.npmjs.com
>
> It recursevely fetched the dependencies of jquery 3.1.1, then the
> dependencies of the dependencies, then the dependencies of the dependencies
> of the dependencies... and so on
>
> Until there were no more dependencies to fetch.
>
> It stored all such dependencies in a graph database made by the amazing
> amz3 for their project, Culturia. They wrote about such project several
> times on the guile-users mailing list.

Neat!

> It took days to download. And it took me months to produce a working
> version of this code. Because I don't know Guile very well and maybe I'm
> not that smart overall.
>
> Anyway, now I have a COMPLETE graph of the dependencies of jquery 3.1.1
>
> It's made of
> 47311 vertices and
> 324569 edges

Impressive.

I suppose the data you gathered about the graph could help guide usage
of Jelle’s importer?  (… which we should consider merging BTW!)

I would be honored if my data could help guide usage of Jelle's importer.

That was exactly my idea when I started this. The Nodejs stuff can't be treated with brute force.
A data oriented approach can help, here.