r.js is missing when I install requirejs through bower, why?

Question

r.js is missing when I install requirejs through bower, why?

I installed bower globally and then I install requirejs

bower install requirejs

it installs all the stuff and no error happens:

bower cloning git://github.com/jrburke/requirejs
bower cached git://github.com/jrburke/requirejs
bower fetching requirejs
HEAD is now at c94b6fe Merge pull request #809 from tapsboy/master
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Previous HEAD position was c94b6fe... Merge pull request #809 from tapsboy/master
HEAD is now at a77a30a... Rev for 2.1.8
bower checking out requirejs#2.1.8
Removing bower.json
2.1.8
bower copying C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Application Data\bower\cache\requirejs\ca377b0e482cd657ed20ebfa063ade1a
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bower installing requirejs#2.1.8

I was expecting to find a bin directory and a file named r.js in it!

Update:

If I install

npm install requirejs

Note that now is npm instead of bower it creates the bin/r.js file too.

What is the problem and differences between the npm and bower packages?

thanks (:

Answer 1

A bower install will clone a git repo into the components folder of your project. So bower install requirejs will clone the requirejs repo. But r.js is not part of this repo but has its own. You can download the compiler with bower by bower install r.js

With npm install requirejs you get a special package created by the maintainer of requirejs, who buts the r.js file into the package.

So the main difference between bower and npm is that bower links to a git repo while npm links to special package created by the publisher.