npm package.json needs to be corrected

[secretfader]

npm install mapnik
Password:
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm info using npm@0.3.7
npm info using node@v0.4.1
npm info fetch http://registry.npmjs.org/mapnik/-/mapnik-0.2.10.tgz
npm info calculating sha1 /tmp/npm-1299008942231/1299008942231-0.32237716135568917/tmp.tgz
npm info shasum 0f9fbbaf8e01b73ca5373925f4a5dcd361f8180d
npm ERR! couldn't read package.json in /tmp/npm-1299008942231/1299008942231-0.32237716135568917/contents/package
npm ERR! Error installing mapnik@0.2.10
npm ERR! Error: Failed to parse json
npm ERR! Unexpected token ILLEGAL
npm ERR!     at jsonParseFail (/usr/local/lib/node/.npm/npm/0.3.7/package/lib/utils/read-json.js:89:11)
npm ERR!     at /usr/local/lib/node/.npm/npm/0.3.7/package/lib/utils/read-json.js:82:14
npm ERR!     at P (/usr/local/lib/node/.npm/npm/0.3.7/package/lib/utils/read-json.js:62:40)
npm ERR!     at cb (/usr/local/lib/node/.npm/npm/0.3.7/package/lib/utils/graceful-fs.js:31:9)
npm ERR!     at [object Object]. (fs.js:86:5)
npm ERR!     at [object Object].emit (events.js:39:17)
npm ERR!     at afterRead (fs.js:843:12)
npm ERR! JSON.parse 
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! JSON.parse Note that package.json must be actual JSON, not
npm ERR! JSON.parse just a JavaScript object.
npm ERR! JSON.parse 
npm ERR! JSON.parse This changed in npm 0.3.0, and is not a bug in npm.
npm ERR! JSON.parse Tell the package author to fix their package.json file.
npm ERR! JSON.parse
npm ERR! System Darwin 10.6.0
npm not ok

[secretfader]

Fixed here, and pull request submitted: https://github.com/nicholaswyoung/node-mapnik/commit/aca42432d8988af0b8face364f7cd6500e016c8f

[springmeyer]

thanks so much for the report. I was still using npm@0.2.18 which must be more tolerance than recent versions for json syntax.

[secretfader]

The stricter syntax started at 0.3.1.