2017-01-20 22:23 GMT+01:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:

> Hi!
>
> Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > I made a crawler and I let it loose on the jquery 3.1.1 dependencies on
> > registry.npmjs.com
> >
> > It recursevely fetched the dependencies of jquery 3.1.1, then the
> > dependencies of the dependencies, then the dependencies of the
> dependencies
> > of the dependencies... and so on
> >
> > Until there were no more dependencies to fetch.
> >
> > It stored all such dependencies in a graph database made by the amazing
> > amz3 for their project, Culturia. They wrote about such project several
> > times on the guile-users mailing list.
>
> Neat!
>
> > It took days to download. And it took me months to produce a working
> > version of this code. Because I don't know Guile very well and maybe I'm
> > not that smart overall.
> >
> > Anyway, now I have a COMPLETE graph of the dependencies of jquery 3.1.1
> >
> > It's made of
> > 47311 vertices and
> > 324569 edges
>
> Impressive.
>
> I suppose the data you gathered about the graph could help guide usage
> of Jelle’s importer?  (… which we should consider merging BTW!)
>
>
I would be honored if my data could help guide usage of Jelle's importer.

That was exactly my idea when I started this. The Nodejs stuff can't be
treated with brute force.
A data oriented approach can help, here.