From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Cyclic npm dependencies
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 14:16:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c3d31c1-de55-68a6-ee65-5cc3d09356f9@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPsKtfKV9-7VoDREJ4MbonXNcRoaNp4SHx+S6UnN8LZQO2LHwA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2018-11-24 16:41, Jelle Licht wrote:
> Hey swedebugia,
>
> I will still send a more elaborate reply to the general npm-importer
> thread later this week, but we can assume that generally these
> recursive dependencies can be untangled by looking at the different
> versions of the dependencies.
>
> So in your example, I imagine an input chain like:
> node-glob 0.1 -> node-rimraf 0.1 -> node-glob 0.2 -> node-rimraf 0.2 ->
> .... -> node-glob 1.0 -> node-rimraf 1.0
Thank you for showing me a way forward. I did not think of this :p
>
> While *extremely* annoying to untangle, this is definitely doable.
> Problems arise if this chain does not actually exist, which basically
> means that we have to hunt down commits [1] which are steps in these
> chains. Another complication is the versioning scheme used by many npm
> packages, the semver [2] + ranges notation [3]. This makes this kind of
> 'versioning archeology' even harder to do.
>
> For the case where this chain does exist, I have been working on a
> semi-npm-compatible semver parser for guile [4], which I was hoping to
> integrate in the npm importer or a standalone tool to assist people
> wanting to untangle these dependency chains. The goal would be to
> reconstruct the needed versions to package by parsing data in the
> package.json files of historic versions of these packages.
Sounds good with a dedicated tool.
For now I concluded:
jquery, browserify, async are off limits because of one or more cycdeps.
Right now I am pursuing rollup and leaflet.
I put all cycdeps aside and intend to publish here in a thread for brave
hackers to work on. ;-)
--
Cheers Swedebugia
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-25 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-24 15:16 Cyclic npm dependencies swedebugia
2018-11-24 15:41 ` Jelle Licht
2018-11-24 16:38 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-11-24 23:29 ` Jelle Licht
2018-11-25 8:34 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-11-25 13:16 ` swedebugia [this message]
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