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diff --git a/node_modules/homedir-polyfill/README.md b/node_modules/homedir-polyfill/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 39b4b3873..000000000 --- a/node_modules/homedir-polyfill/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,75 +0,0 @@ -# homedir-polyfill [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/homedir-polyfill) [](https://npmjs.org/package/homedir-polyfill) [](https://travis-ci.org/doowb/homedir-polyfill) [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/doowb/homedir-polyfill) - -> Node.js os.homedir polyfill for older versions of node.js. - -## Install - -Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/): - -```sh -$ npm install --save homedir-polyfill -``` - -## Usage - -```js -var homedir = require('homedir-polyfill'); -console.log(homedir()); -//=> /Users/doowb -``` - -## Reasoning - -This library is a polyfill for the [node.js os.homedir](https://nodejs.org/api/os.html#os_os_homedir) method found in modern versions of node.js. - -This implementation tries to follow the implementation found in `libuv` by finding the current user using the `process.geteuid()` method and the `/etc/passwd` file. This should usually work in a linux environment, but will also fallback to looking at user specific environment variables to build the user's home directory if neccessary. - -Since `/etc/passwd` is not available on windows platforms, this implementation will use environment variables to find the home directory. - -In modern versions of node.js, [os.homedir](https://nodejs.org/api/os.html#os_os_homedir) is used. - -## About - -### Related projects - -[parse-passwd](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-passwd): Parse a passwd file into a list of users. | [homepage](https://github.com/doowb/parse-passwd "Parse a passwd file into a list of users.") - -### Contributing - -Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new). - -Please read the [contributing guide](contributing.md) for avice on opening issues, pull requests, and coding standards. - -### Building docs - -_(This document was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme) (a [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb) generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in [.verb.md](.verb.md).)_ - -To generate the readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb): - -```sh -$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb -``` - -### Running tests - -Install dev dependencies: - -```sh -$ npm install -d && npm test -``` - -### Author - -**Brian Woodward** - -* [github/doowb](https://github.com/doowb) -* [twitter/doowb](http://twitter.com/doowb) - -### License - -Copyright © 2016, [Brian Woodward](https://github.com/doowb). -Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE). - -*** - -_This file was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), v0.2.0, on October 19, 2016._
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