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NPM has a very innovative approach to package management

• pdpi 12y ago
  How so? Nothing about it has struck me as being particularly unusual.
  • bendrucker 12y ago
    Node uses hierarchical dependencies so different dependencies can get their own version of a particular package. I'd agree that this is hardly innovative, but definitely a lot more user friendly than Ruby. npm is great but would agree that attributing Node's popularity to it is unfounded.
    • tonyarkles 12y ago
      It's a blessing and a curse. When a package is tied to a buggy version of a dependency, it's not a lot of fun to try to get the upgraded version in without either forking your dependencies or trying to get everything fixed upstream. On the flip side, it is nice when (compared to ruby) you have two dependencies that depend on incompatible versions of the same library.