[Pkg-javascript-devel] Debian node-express

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jérémy Lal (2014-04-30 11:59:08)
> Le mercredi 30 avril 2014 à 11:45 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
>> Quoting Leo Iannacone (2014-04-30 10:20:28)
>>> On 30 April 2014 02:39, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
>>>> If /usr/lib/nodejs/express/package.json exists, nodejs uses it to 
>>>> find the entry point of the module.
>>>
>>> Here more info about: 
>>> http://nodejs.org/api/modules.html#modules_folders_as_modules
>>
>> Thanks for that!  Really cool!
>>
>> I am still puzzled, however, on the concrete need for node-express to 
>> preserve its source structure to avoid patching package.json, as I 
>> see no name/main declarations in that specific package.json file.
>
> In that specific case, it is indeed unneeded.
> My personal preference is to not change it, and apparently yours is to 
> change it - no problem with that, isn't it ?

We can agree to disagree, yes, if that's what you mean.

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some valuable point that 
afected also this specific case.  Seems that's not the case :-)

Thanks to both of you for educating me about the general case!  Having 
insight on that is obviously more important when being more "aggressive" 
in tidying while packaging, as I tend to do.


 - Jonas

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