Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category?

[Herb Miller Jr. <herb@hlmjr.com>]

On 03/20/2018 07:50 PM, Benda Xu wrote:
> Hello Herb,
>
> "Herb Miller Jr." <gentooherb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When I did my homework on creating nodejs ebuilds (not nodejs itself
>> but packages written in node), it seems the topic has come up a few
>> times in the past but the time commitment and general disorganization
>> of upstream has scared off any serious attempts at packaging.
>>
>> Seeing as there has been interest in nodejs packages, and in the end
>> we could be talking 400-600+ packages, would it be possible to create
>> dev-libs/nodejs category? I would be happy to write and proxy-maintain
>> ebuilds for a large number of them to get things in motion. I've
>> already opened pull request #7427 [1] for chalk and its
>> dependencies. I'm aiming to build up to all the dependencies needed
>> for Visual Studio Code OSS.
>>
>> [1]:https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/7427
> Your effort will be much appreciated.  I support your plan.
>
> Should the category be dev-js intead?  To me, node.js is but an
> implementation of javascript runtime.
>
>
> BTW, for the 400-500 packages, are you going to create them with a
> generator script?
>
> Cheers,
> Benda
>
>
Hopefully by the time it gets to that many I won't be the only one
creating/maintaining them. If I am, then yes, some kind of automation
would be the only sane way to keep up. I figure I'll face that challenge
when I get there. As I'm writing them I am seeing a general skeleton
forming that most of them fit into.

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Herb Miller Jr.