On 22/09/2011 16:54, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 at 15:34:31 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: >>> node-which finds the first instance of a specified executable >>> in the PATH environment variable. >> >> How does this differ from: >> >> * the 'which' utility in debianutils (which is Essential: yes) >> >> * the 'which' builtin in shells that have copied it from csh (including zsh) >> >> * command -v, which exists on every POSIX system supporting the User >> Portability Utilities option, and in particular is a builtin in dash >> >> * command -V, a more verbose form of command -v, which exists on every POSIX >> system supporting the User Portability Utilities option, and in particular >> is a builtin in dash >> >> and how/when is it be better or more useful than those? >> >> S >> > > AFAICT it's not meant to be used from the CLI - I think this would be > better as libnode-which - but it's also like 70 lines.
It will probably be named "libnode-which" but i started a discussion on pkg-javascript-devel about that naming scheme [1] > I'm not sold on this package, either TBH, but I think it would > actually be useful to someone, somewhere at sometime. Perhaps consider > this for inclusion when it's needed? npm 1.0 depends on it, otherwise i wouldn't dare packaging this. Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7b4e51.5090...@edagames.com
