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support-cli as its own module? #1

Closed smikes closed 9 years ago

smikes commented 9 years ago

I'm going to completely abuse the issue tracker here and raise this question:

Should there be a support-cli module separate from npm?

Arguments against: more complexity

Argument for:

suppose a user has a mostly working node but a broken npm, or an old npm (<2.1.9 is old by this standard). Wouldn't it be nice if there were a "thing that they can do" that does some sniffing around (looking for outdated node, npm version, clean up cache, that sort of stuff) that would not require them to be able to upgrade npm (which feels scary to novice users)

Something that they can run via curl <url> | sh

othiym23 commented 9 years ago

That sounds like an excellent project for somebody who has some spare time (hint: not me) to put together! I do want to build out npm doctor at some point to detect / fix issues with npm's environment and configuration, but it's entirely possible that that functionality could be pioneered outside of npm itself. I don't think support-cli is a very good name for that tool (npm-doctor is much better), and I don't think this is the right place to host it.

This repo should be reserved exclusively for support, because I don't want to get back to a situation where we need to worry about giving people privileges to manage issues because we want control over who gets to push code. Especially if we're going to be pushing issues here in a semi-automated way.

smikes commented 9 years ago

Agree that project doesn't belong here.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Forrest L Norvell notifications@github.com wrote:

That sounds like an excellent project for somebody who has some spare time (hint: not me) to put together! I do want to build out npm doctor at some point to detect / fix issues with npm's environment and configuration, but it's entirely possible that that functionality could be pioneered outside of npm itself. I don't think support-cli is a very good name for that tool (npm-doctor is much better), and I don't think this is the right place to host it.

This repo should be reserved exclusively for support, because I don't want to get back to a situation where we need to worry about giving people privileges to manage issues because we want control over who gets to push code. Especially if we're going to be pushing issues here in a semi-automated way.

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