IMHO, fighting Debian is a lost war All that you will do is get users even more confused
Alex Kocharin <[email protected]> escreveu: > >I took a few solid evenings to read up all the material about ax25-node >and >node.js conflict in Debian. > >No. > >First of all, name of the project is "node.js". Name of the binary is >"node". "nodejs" shouldn't be used, ever, it'll just confuse users. Do >you >know that we have two rooms on the irc server named "node.js" and >"nodejs", >and second one redirects to the first one? Right. As I said, "nodejs" >is a >fake name, never use it. > >Node.js is an interpreter, it is designed to be ran by the user, and it >is >very often can be found in makefiles, shebangs, etc. 2 letters DO >matter >here. > > >On Monday, November 11, 2013 8:17:51 AM UTC+4, Andrew Kelley wrote: >> >> Some reading material: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Policy >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614907#108 >> >> Debian (and hence other downstream distros such as Ubuntu) has >decided to >> use /usr/bin/nodejs as the binary path for the official node.js >package. >> Unfortunately, this makes the package unusable for applications and >modules >> which depend on the "node" binary. For many of us who are familiar >with >> node, it is easy to compile from source, install from a different >source >> (such as Chris Lea's PPA), or even softlink nodejs to node to get >> everything working. Some people are on OSX or other distros where >this >> problem seems nonexistent. But don't underestimate how powerful the >> convenience of installing from a distribution's package manager is, >and how >> influential Debian and its downstreams are. This is a huge point of >> confusion for users who want to install our open source node.js apps >and >> utilities. From their perspective, everything is just broken and they >don't >> care enough to figure out why. >> >> "node" is an extremely generic word. Let's face it, it was a little >bit >> arrogant to use as the binary name. It conflicts with another binary >name >> in the debian ecosystem, and does not conflict in some other >ecosystems. >> But such a generic word is bound to conflict in the future and be a >source >> of confusion. "nodejs" is still concise, yet is a much less selfish >citizen >> in the global namespace. >> >> Node has not yet reached 1.0. It's not too late to make this change. >> > >-- >-- >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. -- E-mail enviado do meu celular usando Kaiten Mail. Por favor, desculpe minha brevidade. -- -- 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.
