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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:27:40 -0400
From:      Steve Wills <steve@mouf.net>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, Juraj Lutter <otis@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r568508 - head/devel/node-gyp
Message-ID:  <80fc0f66-44b1-f7d3-fc36-b78d63bc753b@mouf.net>
In-Reply-To: <20210316221912.smaeylfqtx7yfm6i@aching.in.mat.cc>
References:  <202103152102.12FL2tRP068067@repo.freebsd.org> <20210316211715.pa4w3lrffzxr3ftx@aching.in.mat.cc> <2239997E-E3B6-403F-B36D-4326CDF16EFE@FreeBSD.org> <20210316221912.smaeylfqtx7yfm6i@aching.in.mat.cc>

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Hi,

On 3/16/21 6:19 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>
> The rationale being that given X ports that depend on a node module, you
> will probably need more than X versions of that module because they
> will all depend on incompatible versions of said module.


I think this applies to Go modules as well. It might be good to document 
this, if it isn't already. Maybe other things too, like Rust, etc? Even 
with python/ruby etc. there's a lot of need for multiple versions, but I 
guess it's not as much.


> A port that requires node modules must provide its own.  It can
> absolutely be by having an extra step for the maintainer to generate a
> tarball with all the required modules that can simply be extracted as
> needed.  I have not checked, but there are probably ports already doing
> this.
>

Which leads to the point that since ports/Mk/Uses/go.mk provides a way 
to do this, maybe ports/Mk/Uses/node.mk should as well? Just a thought.


Cheers,

Steve





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