Re: npm (mitigation)

[Catonano]

2017-07-14 13:57 GMT+02:00 Jelle Licht <address@hidden>:

Hi Catonano,

I would be be happy to help you with this, but tbh, I am not comfortable discussing this in-depth on guix-devel, as this seems antithetical to Guix' goals.

Ok, at least we made this clear.
I'll keep the list off the hook, should I need to discuss tis further, in the future.

Just for the record, I don't mean to conter thhe Guix aim. I consider this as a temporary mitigation. Were "temporary" is the key word

Regardless, the biggest issue that remains is still that npm-land is mired in cyclical dependencies and a fun-but-not-actually unique dependency resolving scheme.

I am currently working on a guile version of what Sander did for Nix for importing entire npm dependency trees, but this will likely lead to lots of programmatically
defined packages instead of the guix approach of mostly-manually defining each package.

What ? Who is Sander ans what did the do for Nix ?

How is importing "entire npm dependencies trees" different than importing one package at a time and building the dependency tree gradually ?

I have no problem with programmatically defined pacages, anyway ;-)