Also add symlinks from the old `bin/` and `tests/` locations to avoid
breaking scripts and other tools.
Motivations:
* Scripts and tests no longer have to do dubious things like:
require('ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/foo')
to access packages installed as dependencies in
`src/package.json`.
* Plugins can access the backend test helper library in a non-hacky
way:
require('ep_etherpad-lite/tests/backend/common')
* We can delete the top-level `package.json` without breaking our
ability to lint the files in `bin/` and `tests/`.
Deleting the top-level `package.json` has downsides: It will cause
`npm` to print warnings whenever plugins are installed, npm will
no longer be able to enforce a plugin's peer dependency on
ep_etherpad-lite, and npm will keep deleting the
`node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite` symlink that points to `../src`.
But there are significant upsides to deleting the top-level
`package.json`: It will drastically speed up plugin installation
because `npm` doesn't have to recursively walk the dependencies in
`src/package.json`. Also, deleting the top-level `package.json`
avoids npm's horrible dependency hoisting behavior (where it moves
stuff from `src/node_modules/` to the top-level `node_modules/`
directory). Dependency hoisting causes numerous mysterious
problems such as silent failures in `npm outdated` and `npm
update`. Dependency hoisting also breaks plugins that do:
require('ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/foo')
The old loadSettings.js was a way of customizing settings upon load, because
the Settings module did not offer this functionality. But it did not work well,
since all the default settings were not loaded.
Let's get rid of loadSettings.js for the bulk of the tests (the "backend"
specs). For the "container" specs, we'll keep it in place until/if we rewrite
Settings.js making it less brittle.
Note by muxator:
This commit introduced a copied & modified version of the testing files
loadSettings.js and pad.js.
It's Christmas night, and we want to shipt this feature, so I merged it anyway,
adding a note in both the original and copied files so that hopefully someone
in the distant future is going to merge them back again.
