Re: [gentoo-dev] [Proposal] Eclass for nodejs modules

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 02/29/2016 06:24 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> On 29/02/16 03:23, Geaaru wrote:
>>
>> In conclusion, it seems that is not accepted use of nodejs modules
>> ebuild inside portage. It is right?
>>
>>
> There used to be a CoffeeScript ebuild if you search back. I do not
> remember how it worked but IIRC I think it was basically just creating a
> fake root for itself. The distfile itself was just that node_modules/
> directory in a tarball. No direction on how those dependencies could be
> shared, so it is no longer in the tree.
> 

I really needed it for one program, so I'm maintaining coffee-script in
the tree now as dev-lang/coffee-script. I have an eclass and some
ebuilds using it at https://github.com/orlitzky/npm but I didn't want to
wind up in charge of a NodeJS project and nobody else did either, so I'm
no longer working on it. The current coffee-script ebuild copy/pastes
some of the stuff that would have been handled by the eclass.

Only misery lies down this path. Every upstream project is a mess and
nobody cares, because implicitly, their roadmaps all involve realizing
that javascript is awful and abandoning the project. To get this stuff
in the tree, we would need a full-time devoted developer who just loves
javascript and is sexually aroused by having his time wasted.