From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E28B139B2A for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 07:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3270C21C044; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 07:06:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com (mail-wi0-f173.google.com [209.85.212.173]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E99ACE08BF for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 07:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wicge5 with SMTP id ge5so19586811wic.0 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:06:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xSt+hYuus7tKxKZZczvisxGIbPdHCJEX49uyNOeJz+0=; b=HFKX2nXqiZLhqEg9yr5YJgnkQQeQRNu+xCgDmpX8aCPFnyNef/magjxj16M+moaDU7 9mWuqpccigl167cMZ5/7IJgyx+Am6GWNjGve3xPzX/isOqLtoAMGRioo4wwUWxJO9wak Pe1dOV5eKR4RfvG8pNMKNmaATrrQ78HUNyHQdt8Q9FQOBv4TiWRJB26EezOXbyQMoG+J Nr5J/1kqMwCdL61Kw51gBhSbJKJHvF+C64mtgyA7gidd3bwYBurN9ShgO+FQuVrtrhb/ ftuG4BXmzwqXp4kDxyguBj4knVg64QxgkrGshMXwuHsr1UQpbwp37JCJA4G2/5mZL22E jt8w== X-Received: by 10.194.237.232 with SMTP id vf8mr5189802wjc.22.1442559966732; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-195-3.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.195.3]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id jj8sm7003251wid.2.2015.09.18.00.06.05 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] npm: ERR! cb() never called! To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <55FAC831.40900@gmail.com> <55FB0B92.2050108@gentoo.org> <55FB1377.9090701@gmail.com> <20150917205306.GB1418@greenbeast> <55FB2CE6.30507@gmail.com> <20150918033440.GA9830@greenbeast> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <55FBB7C9.3070303@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:05:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150918033440.GA9830@greenbeast> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: db4b8bf7-7597-4f6c-955b-04b88c09c76f X-Archives-Hash: a7c423974d6468929c70a00aca03fa95 On 18/09/2015 05:34, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >>> This sucks, but it seems to be the way a lot of web stuff is deployed >>> > > these days. > All these dynamic languages suffer from the fun problem that developers > that don't write enough tests have essentially no guarantee that their > code actually parses. I can't count how many times I've run Ruby, > Python, or Bash scripts only to have 'variable not found' or type > errors; all of the things that compilers do really well[1]. I well remember flameeyes' bitching about packaging ruby gems. One problem kept coming up over and over: tests would fail, usually because the dev used some code buried deep in his own workstation, and that HAD NEVER BEEN RELEASED. Braindeaddeaddead -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com