bin/files are automatically symlinked?

[kof]

I don't use "bin" key in package.json, but I see, that all files from bin are symlinked to /usr/local/bin

How is that possible?

MacOS 10.6.6
Node 0.4.0
npm 0.3.17

Oleg

[isaacs]

It could be because you have "directories":{"bin":"./bin"}? What package is this?

[kof]

no, directories prop is not in use too ... first I found this in sharedjs package ... now tested some other, all of them have this problem. if I use bin: {} then it stops doing that.

[isaacs]

Ah, yeah, it's defaulting the "bin" directory to "./bin" if there's a dir by that name.

I'm going to rip that out for 1.0

[kof]

is this behaviour being there all the time?

[kof]

so, if we have bin dir and don't want to symlink its files, we have to use bin: {} ... puh this is really broken :)

[isaacs]

It's not really broken. Worst case scenario, it creates some symlinks that you don't need. In the vast majority of packages, putting something in a "bin" folder is grounds for believing it's an executable.

Changed in 1.0.

[kof]

also if doing this automatically, package name should be used as a prefix for the symlink name, f.e package fui, bin/test.js symlinked to fui-test.

I got problems because I have file names conflicts ....

[isaacs]

on dbf5e80, more specifically.