Hi! Jelle Licht <jli...@fsfe.org> skribis:
> First things first: most of the hard work has been done by others. I'd > like to specifically thank Timothy Sample for their > `other-node-build-system' and Ryan Prior for getting `esbuild' packaged > and telling me about it. A shout out goes to Giacomo Leidi for making me > grumpy enough with the existing node-build-system to finally sit down > and fix this. I added Timothy as a Co-author on the first commit, so I > hope that is Good Enough for the copyright situation. Woow, well done! > As a small extra, I have also worked on getting Timothy Sample's > 'binary' npm importer to work with the contemporary guix import and > guile-json APIs; I'd like some insight into whether this binary importer > could still hold some value for inclusion in guix proper[3]. I could > still add this code to the branch as well if there is interest. I think it would make sense to include this importer. The manual should warn about the fact that it does not yield built-from-source packages and perhaps give pointers on how to address that, but it can still be useful, and probably even more useful if it’s in Guix proper. Thoughts? > I won't be able to commit significant chunks of time on my end in the > upcoming month, but I've learned that it makes sense to share once you > have something worth sharing, instead of when you think it's > done. Reviews, tests and improvements very much welcome! I don't think > it makes sense to still target the upcoming release for all of this fun > stuff to be merged into master, but if somebody want to pick up the > slack and champion that cause; go right ahead! I think the key is to avoid bitrot: I suggest working to make sure you can have that branch merged within, say, one or two months at most, even if that means regularly pinging people. :-) Thanks! Ludo’.
