use github-url-to-object

[kenany]

This patches removes github-url in favor of github-url-to-object, the same module that the new npmjs website uses to parse repository URLs.

Repository URLs not ending with ".git", like review's:

$ npm view review repository.url
git://github.com/juliangruber/review

cannot be parsed by github-url (although there is a pull request open for this), so ironically enough the example http://ghub.io/review goes to the npmjs page.

In addition, packages using the new GitHub shorthand notation (user/repo) expand at publish-time to something that github-url cannot parse at all:

$ npm view binomial-cdf repository.url
git+https://github.com/kenany/binomial-cdf.git

But github-url-to-object parses all of these.

Fixes #8

[juliangruber]

aw man, github-url used to work with packages like review. since github-url-to-object is used by the npmjs website i trust it to work well. i'll deploy now

[juliangruber]

omg leveldown is still being built on my joyent box, maybe i should switch to leveldown-prebuilt...

[juliangruber]

actually, this does not work with your module, see this failing test: https://github.com/juliangruber/ghub.io/commit/d47856aa6ffb828fc7e932d925c2a2e9fbf8529d

output:

      FOUND:  -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/binomia
      WANTED: -> https://github.com/kenany/binomial-cd
                         ^ (at position = 11)

it does work with review now though :P

[juliangruber]

you can try it out here: https://github-url-to-object.herokuapp.com/

[kenany]

Woah woah woah that's weird, not github-url-to-object's fault:

$ node
> require('github-url-to-object')('git+https://github.com/kenany/binomial-cdf.git') 
{ user: 'kenany',
  repo: 'binomial-cdf',
  branch: 'master',
  tarball_url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/kenany/binomial-cdf/tarball/master',
  https_url: 'https://github.com/kenany/binomial-cdf',
  travis_url: 'https://travis-ci.org/kenany/binomial-cdf',
  api_url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/kenany/binomial-cdf' }

The demo must be outdated since it can't do the same. Looking into this....

[kenany]

Okay, so for whatever reason binomial-cdf isn't on isaacs.iriscouch.com: http://isaacs.iriscouch.com/registry/binomial-cdf

But it is on skimdb.npmjs.com: https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry/binomial-cdf

It seems to me as though isaacs.iriscouch.com is not being updated as a downstream mirror anymore. It has 94,893 documents whereas skimdb has 153,960. Switching to skimdb should fix this but from my testing syncing feels much slower (although there are more documents to sync).

[juliangruber]

ok, i'll open an issue for switching to skimdb