Re: Cyclic npm dependencies

[swedebugia]

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. ;-)

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Cheers Swedebugia