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[Gabriel Hurley <Gabriel.Hurley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with the larger problem of being mindful about our supported distros. That said, most of us are (at best) knowledgeable about a single distro's bundled packages. This is amplified by the fact that our CI infrastructure is only gated on a single distro (Ubuntu) currently.

As you noted, the nodejs.tchol.org site seems to offer useful resources for running node on Fedora.

If someone would like to work up a quick writeup of best-practices for installing/configuring node.js on Fedora (I'm not a Fedora user, sorry) I'd be happy to help get it included in the docs.


-          Gabriel

From: openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joshua Harlow
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:32 PM
To: Chuck Short
Cc: Yahoo Openstack Developers; openstack
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Nodejs in horizon

So was there thought about the fedora and other distributions when adding this as a dependency.

I thought we were going to try to support both, but if a package is currently only in a single distribution, that makes it hard to develop on both.

Not sure if this is valid, and it might be helpful: http://nodejs.tchol.org/

It seems like this hairy wart is coming back up again, ie, not including stuff on only one distro, or at least planning ahead accordingly to how the other distros can get it... This is especially important in CI/integration tests, where now without a special package, how can this stuff be tested in the other distros...

-Josh

On 5/24/12 12:27 PM, "Chuck Short" <chuck.short@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi

On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:33:32 -0700
Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was seeing that node.js is now being used in horizon. Is there any
> details on why that was needed, the reasoning, the technical docs on
> where it is used.
>
> Are there packages available in fedora/ubuntu for this?

Yes in ubuntu



>
> Such a change seems like it should have a little more
> reasoning/explanation that what I found @
> https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/commit/0c2891558122aa9d030811109536caf5c81cfb75
> or
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/transition-to-lesscss
>
> Do we really need to have that ?? :-/
>
> -Josh

Regards
chuck