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cloudhead / http-console

simple, intuitive HTTP REPL — Speak HTTP like a local.
Apache License 2.0
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kiwi? #4

Closed whoisjake closed 14 years ago

whoisjake commented 14 years ago

Is it blasphemy to ask why it's on npm vs. kiwi? Or why not both? I'm new to node, so I can't say which one is more popular or useful, but I do know that other packages I want to use with node (such as express) are already on there and I'd hate to have 2 package managers...

At any rate, just thought you'd give kiwi some consideration...

cloudhead commented 14 years ago

express is on kiwi because the guy who wrote express wrote kiwi.

I'm not a fan of it to be honest, and npm is the de-facto package manager.

I'm pretty sure express is going to find it's way on npm at some point, along with all the other projects.

whoisjake commented 14 years ago

That's fine. Was curious...

jchaney commented 14 years ago

Not that followers are the best metric, but Kiwi has twice as many people following the project than npm. I don't know about npm being the de-facto-standard. I can tell you that kiwi works great behind a proxy server where npm fails miserably for me. How about releasing a tarball with the dependencies so we don't have to bother with either?

cloudhead commented 14 years ago

I recently pushed a change which makes it use node's built-in inspector, if it doesn't find eyes.js—which is the only dependency. The only difference is the output response bodies aren't styled/colored without it.

I'm probably going to release a tarball though, good idea.

jchaney commented 14 years ago

Awesome. I did like the colors, but I'm not going to complain. =) Thanks a ton.