[bug#36599] [PATCH] gnu: Add node-semver. (Updated)

[goodoldpaul]

Hi Julien,

> Does npm install the test.js files when run by ittself (in which case 
> we replicate its behavior), or does it have a mechanism to know what 
> files to install? If so we thould replicate that mecanism.

On my system I get

giacomo@frarch /tmp$ npm i semver
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 
'/tmp/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 
'/tmp/package.json'
npm WARN tmp No description
npm WARN tmp No repository field.
npm WARN tmp No README data
npm WARN tmp No license field.

+ semver@7.3.2
added 1 package and audited 1 package in 0.626s
found 0 vulnerabilities

giacomo@frarch /tmp$ ls -l node_modules/semver/
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo    60 Apr 17 16:43 bin/
-rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo  2257 Oct 26  1985 CHANGELOG.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo   120 Apr 17 16:43 classes/
drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo   520 Apr 17 16:43 functions/
-rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo  1982 Oct 26  1985 index.js
drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo   120 Apr 17 16:43 internal/
-rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo   765 Oct 26  1985 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo  1645 Apr 17 16:43 package.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo    69 Oct 26  1985 preload.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo   619 Oct 26  1985 range.bnf
drwxr-xr-x 2 giacomo giacomo   260 Apr 17 16:43 ranges/
-rw-r--r-- 1 giacomo giacomo 22109 Oct 26  1985 README.md

so I believe that npm uses the "files" key [0] in package.json to decide 
what to install.

I'm definitely available to implement that but it could take a week or 
two, if we feel it should be changed right away I'm probably not the 
best person to do that.

What do you think? Should I open another issue about this?

Giacomo

[0]: https://github.com/npm/node-semver/blob/master/package.json#L21