isaacs/npm — Issue #1708: Suggestion: use node.js based make
Author: JulianBirch
Created: 2011-11-14 09:07:58+00:00
State: open

Cake is an obvious candidate: it can be installed as a submodule to npm and run in a self-contained manner.

Why would you want to do this? Mostly to simplify windows compatibility. At the moment, npm, like many parts of the node.js solution, requires node+a unix toolset. Standardizing on using node for everything would make cross-platform stuff easier.