[Pkg-javascript-devel] Supporting multiple modules versions -OR- Bundling node modules in node app

[David Paleino]

Hello team members,
I'm still struggling in packaging TileMill for Debian. After the whole bunch of
node-* packages I uploaded, I hoped everything went fine, when... TileMill
requires an older version of a package I uploaded (node-bones 1.3.* vs. the
Debianic 2.0).

Now, I don't know what to do. Should I make a node-bones1 package? Should we
establish some policy for keeping different versions of a package?
It would be nice if we could use the same hierarchy of ~/.node_modules/ or
~/.npm/ in our NODE_PATH, i.e. something along the lines of:

/usr/lib/nodejs/
\ -- module/
     | --- 0.1/
     | --- 0.2/
     \ --- .../

or:

/usr/lib/nodejs/
| -- module at 0.1/
| -- module at 0.2/
\ -- module at .../

Or, at least, @1.x/, @2.x/, ... .

I can't think of any other way of keeping things sane, other than patching all
apps to work with the packaged modules (in this case I'll stop right away
working on TileMill, it's too far away from my possibilities), or bundling the
needed modules in the orig tarball.

What's your opinion on this?

Thank you,
David
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