[Pkg-javascript-devel] nodejs and npm : worth reading, take two

[Jérémy Lal]

Hi,
here's upstream nodejs author view about npm :
http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/04/04/development-environment/

quoting from blog :
"""
CPAN and RubyGems have blurred the lines between development tools and system package managers. With npm we wish to draw a clear line: it is not a system package manager. It is not for installing firefox or ffmpeg or OpenSSL; it is for rapidly downloading, building, and setting up Node packages. npm is a development tool. When a Node program become sufficiently mature it should be distributed as a tarball, .deb, .rpm, etc — do not expect end users to install programs written in node via npm.
"""


Rather nice to see it fits well debian point of view.

Jérémy.