Make the module compatible with TypeScript 2 / npm

[DKroot]

I'd very much like to use this module for client-side development, but I'm using the latest TypeScript and npm and am hesitant to introduce typings just for this.

[blakeembrey]

Welcome to our life - see microsoft/types-publisher#4.

[blakeembrey]

The hack we have been doing is adding a name and version to package.json so people can install from GitHub - feel free to submit a PR for that. For anything else, I'm not 100% sure what we can do.

There's also the issue that TypeScript didn't really have the use case where a module is both global and module (e.g. not on NPM and has the same name). I'm not really familiar with this library, but that might also be the case here if it's not the same as https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/types/http-status-codes/index.d.ts.

[DKroot]

OK, installing in npm from GitHub could be definitely a workaround if you find it problematic to publish to npm registry. I can do a package.json update for this.

[blakeembrey]

It's not really that it's problematic, it's that it's impossible. Only Microsoft has permission and we don't. See the linked thread for more context. Feel free to update the package.json for now, but I don't see a good solution anyway since the name appears to conflict. This is just a lib function from Typings, so maybe you're after a different library?