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[PATCH] gnu: Add node-semver.

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: goodoldpaul <at> autistici.org
Cc: julien <at> lepiller.eu, 36599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#36599] [PATCH] gnu: Add node-semver. (Updated)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:03:52 +0300

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 02:54:43PM +0000, goodoldpaul <at> autistici.org wrote:
> Hi Julien,
> 
> > Does npm install the test.js files when run by ittself (in which case we
> > replicate its behavior), or does it have a mechanism to know what files
> > to install? If so we thould replicate that mecanism.
> 
> On my system I get
> 
> giacomo <at> frarch /tmp$ npm i semver
> npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open
> '/tmp/package.json'
> npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/tmp/package.json'
> npm WARN tmp No description
> npm WARN tmp No repository field.
> npm WARN tmp No README data
> npm WARN tmp No license field.
> 
> + semver <at> 7.3.2
> added 1 package and audited 1 package in 0.626s
> found 0 vulnerabilities
> 
> giacomo <at> frarch /tmp$ ls -l node_modules/semver/
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo    60 Apr 17 16:43 bin/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo  2257 Oct 26  1985 CHANGELOG.md
> drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo   120 Apr 17 16:43 classes/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo   520 Apr 17 16:43 functions/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo  1982 Oct 26  1985 index.js
> drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo   120 Apr 17 16:43 internal/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo   765 Oct 26  1985 LICENSE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo  1645 Apr 17 16:43 package.json
> -rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo    69 Oct 26  1985 preload.js
> -rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo   619 Oct 26  1985 range.bnf
> drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo   260 Apr 17 16:43 ranges/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo 22109 Oct 26  1985 README.md
> 
> so I believe that npm uses the "files" key [0] in package.json to decide
> what to install.
> 

Thanks for looking into it.

> I'm definitely available to implement that but it could take a week or two,
> if we feel it should be changed right away I'm probably not the best person
> to do that.
> 
> What do you think? Should I open another issue about this?

I think we should fix it, but it shouldn't block getting your package
into Guix. Go ahead and open a new issue for it.

> 
> Giacomo
> 
> [0]: https://github.com/npm/node-semver/blob/master/package.json#L21
> 
> 
> 

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