Recent Jam releases and NEW API

[Caolan McMahon]

Hi all,

I've made a number of small releases today so I thought I should bring you all up to speed.

0.2.1

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- Fixed a bug when updating an existing package published using an older version of Jam (issue #56)

0.2.2

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- Added some integration tests

- Made the test suite easier to run on Windows

- Created a much cleaner Node.js API (see: https://github.com/caolan/jam/blob/master/index.js)

0.2.3

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- Added support for custom search URLs for private repositories, see the README for usage information

New API / Integration for framework & tool authors

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I hope the new Node.js API introduced in 0.2.2 will make it much easier for Node.js framework/tool authors to add Jam integration for their browser-side dependency management. You can completely wrap the Jam code with your own interface and bundle it with your project and it will handle all the dependency management and querying the package repository for you. The best part is that you get to tap into an existing repository which already has many useful packages available!

If you're interesting in getting Jam integrated into your toolset, please don't hesitate to contact me. I'll be more than happy to help you get set up. I'm also planning a non-Node.js API which uses the commands directly but provides the results in an easy to parse format.

As always, feedback welcome in the thread!

Caolan

[Caolan McMahon]

Oh, it would be great to see some improved / new Grunt tasks using the new API too. I know quite a lot of people in the community are using Grunt and have asked about this.