blip.strongloop.com is dead - what is this?

[STRML]

Looks like you guys are (abusing) optionalDependencies to send a callback to your servers when someone downloads a package.

When it goes down, it has the nice side effect of making npm install take ages.

All SL projects are throwing something similar to:

npm http fetch GET http://blip.strongloop.com/loopback-connector-remote@1.0.3
npm ERR! fetch failed http://blip.strongloop.com/loopback-connector-remote@1.0.3

[gcirne]

Oh, is that what blip.strongloop.com is? This is severely affecting us too.

[morpheu]

👎

[wpjunior]

-1

[andrewsmedina]

👎

[gcirne]

Just so you guys know, this affects us even when blip.strongloop.com is up because we are behind a firewall that does not allow connections to blip.strongloop.com.

[magnotorres]

👎

[albertoleal]

[andreribeirocoelho]

👎

[jeffbraga]

👎

blip problem still annoying

[OwenBrotherwood]

#1389

Is blip still annoying and affecting the installation 'experience' of loopback?

[OwenBrotherwood]

I got time to test my self this evening: still an "issue"

ob_000@OB-X1-CARBON ~/tmp
$ npm install loopback
npm ERR! fetch failed http://blip.strongloop.com/loopback@2.18.0
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED
 etc etc long time etc etc

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The basic workaround is to:``

npm install loopback --no-optional
# and then the installation is sooo quick

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I wonder why optional is not an option: why are optional components installed as default? npm problem
Why are the optional components needed in the package.json at all: they should be optional like so many other things, npm install theOptionalStuff

[STRML]

Optional doesn't mean that it won't install by default, just that it won't
abort the install if it fails.
On May 21, 2015 2:47 PM, "Owen Brotherwood" notifications@github.com
wrote:

I got time to test my self this evening: still an "issue"

ob_000@OB-X1-CARBON ~/tmp
$ npm install loopback
npm ERR! fetch failed http://blip.strongloop.com/loopback@2.18.0
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED
etc etc long time etc etc

---

The basic workaround is to:``

npm install loopback --no-optional

and then the installation is sooo quick

I wonder why optional is not an option: why are optional components
installed as default? npm problem
Why are the optional components needed in the package.json at all: they
should be optional like so many other things, npm install theOptionalStuff

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