From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Ouellette Subject: Re: AX25 and related software's future in Debian Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 14:06:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20120504180621.GB6444@flying-gecko.net> References: <20120504151424.GC24655@flying-gecko.net> <20120504165706.GD24655@flying-gecko.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-disposition: inline In-reply-to: Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Bill Vodall Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:50:41AM -0700, Bill Vodall wrote: > >> Has anyone considered making nodejs and ax25 conflict? That would = be an > >> easy way of sidestepping this entire namespace issue. > >> > > > > FWIW, I'm fine with that. =A0Apparently either Node.js people are n= ot > > OR someone higher in the food chain is not. =A0They are trying to > > make it so you can have Node.js AND node installed. =A0I suspect th= e > > actual cases where this is really desired to be very close to zero. >=20 > While I don't yet know anything about Node.js, a comment was recently > made on the wetnet list that the Node.js technology might lead to > making good use of the inherent nature of AX25 data. >=20 > If they are marked as conflicting, can it be easily overridden at ins= tall time? >=20 Marking the packages as conflicting would get us out of the current immediate situation and allow another release cycle to develop and test transition stratigies/plans. It can be overridden with dpkg --force-conflicts at installation. This= is certainly not necessarily a long term solution. As for the usefulness or not of Node.js with ax25 - similar java toolki= ts=20 exist in the world, web apps are web apps from the user perspective. The marketing speak from nodejs.org: Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily=20 building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-dri= ven,=20 non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect= =20 for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed d= evices. Not seeing anything particularly well suited to ax25 networks there, or anything particularly unique in general. Pat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html