First "official" NodeJS build on Windows
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First "official" NodeJS build on Windows
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#2Did anyone manage to get npm up and running on Windows yet?
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#3Still lots of bugs and many features are not supported. But it is good to know they are working actively on this.
Re: First "official" NodeJS build on Windows
#4Did anyone manage to get npm up and running on Windows yet?
No, there are still a number of issues with NPM support on windows. Isaacs talks about them on the latest NodeUp podcast: http://nodeup.com/
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#5I absolutely love the fact that its just a single exe and not some bloated install. I wish more win software was built like this.
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#6Yeah there will be plenty off issues using npm. The native npm packages will most likely break. Npm has support for binary builds but I'm not sure most packages will have a completely separate build process set up for windows.
In the case of the mongodb package I'm deprecating the c++ bson parser as the js parser is as fast or faster than the c++ bson parser (v8 crankshaft and fast arrays rock) and this "should" make it work out of the box on the windows node.js build (crossing fingers)
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#7Unless you are deploying on Windows, why not run it under cygwin? You may end up with a lot of silly problems with file paths, case insensitivity and any other "impedance mismatch" between your development environment and whatever server the workload will run on.
I did a lot of Django development on Windows and Cygwin saved me a whole lot of pain.
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#8Unless you are deploying on Windows, why not run it under cygwin? You may end up with a lot of silly problems with file paths, case insensitivity and any other "impedance mismatch" between your development environment and whatever server the workload will run on. I did a lot of Django development on Windows and Cygwin saved me a whole lot of pain.
In my opinion, if you are developing for a Linux deployment on Windows it's easier to use VirtualBox to host a Linux OS.
(That goes out the window if you are talking about performance testing of course.)
Re: First "official" NodeJS build on Windows
#9Unless you are deploying on Windows, why not run it under cygwin? You may end up with a lot of silly problems with file paths, case insensitivity and any other "impedance mismatch" between your development environment and whatever server the workload will run on. I did a lot of Django development on Windows and Cygwin saved me a whole lot of pain.
In my opinion, if you are developing for a Linux deployment on Windows it's easier to use VirtualBox to host a Linux OS. (That goes out the window if you are talking about performance testing of course.)
My first corporate issued laptop wasn't beefy enough to run Linux under a VM. Besides, it's convenient to have everything under one file space (moving things to and from the VM tends to be a pain - and if you get your email on Windows, important files will be, more often than not - on the wrong side). Add to that the fact Cygwin gives Windows a bunch of nice tools, langauges and a decent shell and windowed console.
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#10I absolutely love the fact that its just a single exe and not some bloated install. I wish more win software was built like this.
Why? If you use someone else's library there's going to be a dll associated. Node doesn't have any dependencies.