Claudio Wunder

Hey Homebrew maintainers (@carlocab @SMillerDev @bevanjkay @chenrui333 @cho-m), I'm Claudio, one of the core collaborators of Node.js, I'm chiming in here as I've never noticed that Homebrew intentionally removed core...

I've made a PR here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/194041 but no idea yet if it passes, if the changes are correct; I'll test on my MacBook later :)

> That's not actually accurate -- we always make sure that the npm version matches what's shipped with Node: Appreciate for chiming in. I raised a question within my PR...

> This is quite an alarming sentence to deliver to send to downstreams and implies NodeJS has a very strong stance against [opensource.org/osd](https://opensource.org/osd). Apologies, this is indeed an unwarranted statement...

> npm was actually done in response to upstream reported issues: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3794. The default npm build within Node didn't work properly under Homebrew so we needed to build it separately...

> Node 23 is in a couple days and is an excellent opportunity to make any big changes along with a fresh node@22. Node 23 got delayed a bit, I...

> Apologies, this is indeed an unwarranted statement from my side. As per [nodejs/node@main/LICENSE](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/LICENSE?rgh-link-date=2024-10-12T20%3A18%3A16Z), I don't think any license is actually being breached. Apologies again for the unnecessary and inaccurate...

> > Node 23 is in a couple days and is an excellent opportunity to make any big changes along with a fresh node@22. > > Node 23 got delayed...

> The part on user expectations still holds though, but I think we can only complain as Homebrew users, not as Node.js maintainers. Indeed, concur here. > AFAIK this is...

Since @aduh95 has chimed in, I'll defer his opinions as what would be a relay of Node.js will here; If he believes this is completely fine for Homebrew to do,...