Guy refuses to allow Node.js to use his 50 downloads p/week project name

Posted by mbrevda1 on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @06:48AM
from the github.com dept.

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Re:Guy refuses to allow Node.js to use his 50 downloads p/we... by rbanffy on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @07:10AM (#17125073)

Is it my impression or they just moved on, making his package have a name conflict with Node core?

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Re:Guy refuses to allow Node.js to use his 50 downloads p/we... by mbrevda1 on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @07:16AM (#17125101)

They are considering a conflict (which they don't feel would really affect anyone) as an option: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20876#issuecomment-39091...

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Re:Guy refuses to allow Node.js to use his 50 downloads p/we... by rbanffy on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @07:20AM (#17125118)

That's really ugly.

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Re:Guy refuses to allow Node.js to use his 50 downloads p/we... by comboy on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @06:51AM (#17125004)

Blame the system design, not the user. We've had a quite a few threads about npm package names already..

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