What's so good about npm?
Re:Julia webstack
by darkarmani on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @09:16AM
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It's easy for non-ops people to install packages, but I'm not sure it is easy to do large scale deployments. I'm not hating on npm, but there is still a lot to do with managing all of the dependencies in a way that makes it easy to deploy consistent packages. Pip doesn't solve this problem either, so it isn't unique to npm.
Re:Julia webstack
by jesusabdullah on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @10:47PM
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There are some tools for using npm for large scale deployments. Packages are scoped locally to an app, you can bundle them if you want, and there's a "shrinkwrap" command for making sure the installed deps are exactly the same every time. Personally, I would either go with, "peg every version to an exact semver" or "bundle ALL the deps".
My major nitpick with julia so far, if I can be real, is that its package tooling isn't enough like npm. <_< While this gives away my obvious biases, I do think that spending time on making a really good package ecosystem is important, and is something not enough people take seriously.