❦ 5 juin 2016 10:13 CEST, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> :
> this is not about these two specific packages, I'm rather wondering
> how to deal with an ecosystem where it seems to be normal to release
> tiny tiny packages… (*)
>
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 03:25:48AM +0200, Jonathan Ulrich Horn wrote
> "Bug#826371: ITP: node-camelcase-keys -- Convert object keys to
> camelCase":
We already had this conversation 6 months ago:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/11/msg00008.html
My summary is:
- many npm packages are small because people in the Node.JS ecosystem
consider this is a good practice to do small packages that do one
thing well [1].
- many npm packages are small because code size is important for
client-side stuff and npm packages can easily be used client-side
(with browserify and the like)
- stuffing unrelated packages into a big package (like
emacs-goodies-el) is considered a bad solution as it usually leads to
outdated packages and additional burden on maintainers due to our
tooling not handling that well
So, no solution but I think that the consensus was we shouldn't get in
the way.
> FTR: "apt-cache search node|grep ^node|wc -l" returns 382 today.
http://www.modulecounts.com/ (near 300k packages in npm).
[1]:
About the first point, see also:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-117766328.
It's a "funny" answer since some of the provided examples are modules
that don't do their job correctly. For example, it advertises the
"supports-color" module which is so wrong in how it does things. See
yourself:
https://github.com/chalk/supports-color/blob/master/index.js
This library checks command flags for overriding the result. If you have
a CI environment variable, no color for you. If you have a COLORTERM
variable, only 16 colors for you. If you have vt100 as TERM, you get
colors, but not if you have rxvt-unicode. And upstream thinks that this
is just fine:
https://github.com/chalk/supports-color/pull/35
I show this example, because I think this is representative of the "do
one thing well" opinion in the ecosystem while such a dogmatic position
could also lead to the reverse. IMO, such a module also prevents better
alternatives to be developed since people will stick with the small
module that works well with iTerm2 on OSX.
Sorry for the rant.
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