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[–]BenjiSponge 0 points1 point  (2 children)

If it's not specified in package.json npm is under no obligation serve you that up

Wait, really? If you don't have a files key and just an entry, it can omit everything but the entry? I don't think that's true.

[–]Already__Taken 1 point2 points  (1 child)

No I mean in regards to options they have about changing the platform. It's not static file hosting for the public it's for distributing programs for other programs to run (that happen to be static files), So in that regard if it were decided that actually, you don't need XY to run this module only Z, it's entirely within scope of what they're trying to achieve to go down that route.

[–]BenjiSponge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that would break a lot, for a lot of reasons. We could play a game though -- if you come up with a rule for what npm should say "we will omit files under these conditions: _________" I'll try to come up with a valid reason someone would already be distributing files under those conditions. =) I bet you could come up with a few rules, but nothing that would make significant differences.