2013/5/26 Dick Hardt <[email protected]>: > I can't imagine it being a great experience to discover a package with npm > that I cannot install with npm -- I would find it frustrating -- here is a > package that might be useful to you, but you have to install out of band. >
npm can install user/repo so it might as well display them when searching, did you read the thread or what. > > > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:29 AM, stagas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> As I see it, npm is 3 things right now: >> >> 1. a registry (single namespace by design, never going to change, fine) >> 2. a package manager (works with npm registry and recently gh user/repo, >> great!) >> 3. a module discovery platform (but sadly, only for the npm registry) >> >> Let's just fix #3 to include user/repo projects. That is all it needs to >> be full and complete. Otherwise me and other people will continue to bug you >> until the end of time :) this issue isn't going to go away, it's only going >> to get worse as more people make more modules IMHO. >> >> Also, I was looking at the Most starred in npmjs.org website. Here they >> are: >> >> 136 express >> 62 request >> 60 async >> 50 socket.io >> 49 mocha >> 45 grunt >> 41 underscore >> 36 jade >> 34 redis >> 33 connect >> >> From these 10 modules, 4 have proper naming that kinda describe what >> they're about (request, async, socket.io and redis). 1 is kinda misleading >> (connect), and the rest have fancy names because it's just not creative to >> name a web framework 'server' or a test framework 'test' or a template >> library 'template'. They need to stand out because of their nature and be >> memorable. But common tasks favor first-comers because it's the thing that >> people will type when searching for something and it will come up at the >> top. If I want to make an http request module I don't see the problem naming >> it 'request' as well since that's what it does. >> >> Not all cases are the same and for some projects fancy names are o.k. and >> for some other projects (usually single function ones) you just want them to >> communicate their purpose so that the code is less obscure. You say you'll >> be frustrated if you see require('request') and it isn't 'mikeal/request' >> but I'm equally frustrated when I read 'chaos' 'maga' 'jjw' 'slag' and have >> to dig in npmjs.org to find out what each one does. >> >> >> >> On Saturday, May 25, 2013 9:49:09 AM UTC+3, stagas wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I really want to name my modules however I like and be installable and >>> require-able. >>> >>> For example, I want to write a 'merge' utility, and I don't want to >>> struggle coming up with a random set of letters because I want my code >>> to read require('merge') not require('golalamergifiable'). >>> >>> What are my options currently? Anyone have any solutions? >> >> -- >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > > > -- > -- Dick > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
