New version of fable-library

[nojaf]

Description

I noticed there was a new release of Fable.Core on NuGet, but there didn't seem to be any release of fable-library on npm.

[MangelMaxime]

This is "normal", currently the only person that can push packages to fable-library is @alfonsogarciacaro.

I opened a ticket to NPM to request transfer of the ownership of @fable-compiler org and fable-library package. I opened the ticket on the Oct 18 but still don't have new on that subject.

They said that such request can take a long time because they need to be careful about ownership transfer.

I tried to contact Alfonso by email didn't get an answer either.

[nojaf]

Yeah, I was afraid of this response.
Thanks for explaining the current situation.

[laurentpayot]

@nojaf beware of elmish/hmr#44

[MangelMaxime]

@laurentpayot Fable.Core and fable-library are not related. I believe no one is actually using fable-library from NPM packages in their project as this is a really niche feature that was not really made public yet. Will be made public when I have access to the fable-library NPM package.

Also, I am using Elmish.HMR with latest version of Fable without problem so I need to have a look at how you are using it in your case and what is different.

[nojaf]

I believe no one is actually using fable-library from NPM packages in their project

🖐️ Oh, I do! But I get what you are saying. What is the latest status of this? If nothing seems to be happening could we consider using a different name maybe?

[ncave]

fable-library-js seems unused.

[MangelMaxime]

🖐️ Oh, I do! But I get what you are saying.

We found the ONE 😝 (just kidding).

I am still waiting an answer from NPM/Github support but I don't think it will happen.

We could go with fable-library-js or we could create a new org to host everything under it. Problems is that @fable-compiler is taken already by Alfonso.

We could go with @fable_compiler or @fable-compiler-org or @real-fable-compiler.

I personally would prefer to go with a organisation but like that I can make people maintainers for the whole organisation and avoid forgetting to add someone to a package.

[nojaf]

Do you need the fancy @ thing to publish as an organisation?

[MangelMaxime]

@nojaf Yes this is how NPM identify an organisation / scopes so yes this is how it is going to be.

To give you an exemple of how package will be named: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=@mangelmaxime

[nojaf]

I see, well I really have a strong preference on the naming here.
@fable-community has a nice ring but really whatever works for you.

[MangelMaxime]

@fable-community is a good one too and different enough from @fable-compiler which we don't have access to ATM.

To me, it just convey that is more like something made by the "community" than official Fable itself but that's not a big deal.

If I was to have 2 propositions it would be @fable-community or @fable-org?

Any of these two would do for me and would unstuck us from the current situation at least. Meaning that we could release fable-library and also move all of Fable packages to that org.

@dbrattli @ncave What do you think?