1. Seems like a typo, let's find all the ones with typos and update to reasonable values or remove it for the plugin if its not valid. 2. I believe we need it. Some plugins have hard requirements: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-push/blob/f6e0dccfb2a6906c37b5f89f2d2170c3ff420d97/package.json#L33-L60
On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:04 AM, julio cesar sanchez <jcesarmob...@gmail.com> wrote: > For reference, this is the mail discussion about adding it > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cee101266d23a66d57e096da0b613f > edd6e5572b2a101f5a4d4062c2@%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E > > 2018-01-02 18:56 GMT+01:00 Simon MacDonald <simon.macdon...@gmail.com>: > > > Hey all, > > > > Recently we updated most of the core plugins to new major version. > > Unfortunately we forgot to update the "cordovaDependencies" section in > > package.json which prevents the next major version from being > > installed. > > > > For instance we bumped cordova-plugin-camera to version 4.0.0 but > > package.json still had: > > > > "engines": { > > "cordovaDependencies": { > > "3.0.0": { > > "cordova-android": ">=6.3.0" > > }, > > "4.0.0": { > > "cordova": ">100" > > } > > } > > } > > > > so that prevented anyone not running cordova CLI version greater than > > 100 from installing via NPM. Since we are still at cordova 8.x this > > means no one could install the new plugin releases from NPM. > > > > Thank goodness Julio was paying attention over the holiday season and > > was able to get the ball rolling to fix the issue and get a bunch of > > point releases of the core plugins released so folks would not be > > stuck in the new year. > > > > My questions are: > > > > 1) How do we prevent this from happening in the future? Should we > > document that this change needs to be made? > > 2) Do we even need this section of package.json? What purpose does it > hold? > > > > Thanks… > > > > Simon Mac Donald > > http://simonmacdonald.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > > > >
