Re: Bug#706255: ITP: node-slide -- Simple chain and asyncMap flow control module for Node.js

[Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org>]

On 27/04/2013 12:50, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On 27-04-13 10:24, Jérémy Lal wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: "Jérémy Lal" <kapouer@melix.org>
>>
>> * Package name    : node-slide
>>   Version         : 1.1.3
>>   Upstream Author : Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me>
>> * URL             : https://github.com/isaacs/slide-flow-control
>> * License         : Expat
>>   Programming Lang: JavaScript
>>   Description     : Simple chain and asyncMap flow control module for Node.js
>>
>> The flow control module used by npm, for chaining functions like this:
>>   var res = [], last = chain.last, first = chain.first
>>   chain([
>>     [fs, "readdir", "the-directory"]
>>   , [readFiles, "the-directory", last]
>>   , [sum, last]
>>   , [ping, "POST", "example.com", 80, "/foo", last]
>>   , [fs, "writeFile", "result.txt", last]
>>   , [rmFiles, "./the-directory", first]
>>   ], res, cb)
>> ..
> 
> I hope you're planning on rewriting that description for the actual package.
> 
>>From Policy paragraph 3.4:
> 
> "    The description should describe the package (the program) to a user
>      (system administrator) who has never met it before so that they have
>      enough information to decide whether they want to install it.  This
>      description should not just be copied verbatim from the program's
>      documentation.
> "
> 
> Your above description assumes familiarity with javascript and/or
> Node.js, which fails that requirement.

I did that because the explanation was more obscure than an actual example.
...rewriting it...

Jérémy