[Pkg-javascript-devel] Issues with coffeescript 1.9.1

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Arto Jantunen (2015-03-11 08:07:18)
> Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
>
>> Quoting Arto Jantunen (2015-03-10 12:32:09)
>>> Some developers here were requesting an update to coffeescript 
>>> 1.9.1, I went looking for a packaged version and found out that it 
>>> has already been merged in your team's git repo. I tried building 
>>> this, but it doesn't quite work as is. Attached below are two 
>>> patches that allow the package to build successfully.
>>
>> Ah, wonderful!  When the build failed I suspected I needed to fix 
>> something in node-underscore, and from your patches I can see that I 
>> simply made the silly error of including the wrong package.  Nice!
>
> Yeah, the build was looking for a node module and not just the 
> javascript library, even though these are almost the same thing..

Yup, I (should) know.  Which is why I call my error silly. :-)


>>> Apparently something goes wrong with the search path when looking 
>>> for the modules, but my understanding of the node module system is 
>>> somewhat limited. I'd greatly appreciate any help with solving this.
>>
>> That should be easy to catch (and thanks for saving me a roundtrip!).  
>> Issue is that Nodejs modules are assumed to be installed in the home 
>> directory - system-wide path is a Debian "speciality".  So any time a 
>> module walks the file system to get to other modules, we need to 
>> patch it to walk differently.
>
> I see you commited the fix already, and the resulting package seems to 
> work fine. Thanks a lot for your quick and efficient response.

Good to know.  Thanks for the feedback :-)

You are quite welcome to join the team and help maintain this and all 
other packages that I am directly involved in (and likely other packages 
too, but ask first - this team is only loosely coordinated): 
https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript


 - Jonas

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