The goal is to have a module compatible with both 0.6 and 0.8, not one for each
version.
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Diogo Resende
On Friday, June 22, 2012 at 2:37 , Dominic Tarr wrote:
> you can set what version of node a module is for in the package.json
>
> "engines": { "node" : "0.6" }
>
> for example. this does mean you'll have two versions of the code,
> feature detection may be easier to maintain. you choice.
>
> see `npm help json`
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Roly Fentanes <roly...@gmail.com
> (mailto:roly...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > I'm in a similar situation with a module I wrote. And I think I'll just
> > write a note in the readme specifying which version should be installed for
> > node v0.6.x.
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:35:15 AM UTC-7, Diogo Resende wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a module (node-rack) to abstract the cluster module. It was built
> > > for 0.6 and I want to be able to support 0.8 too but not dropping 0.6
> > > support. I noticed for example that `kill()` was renamed to `destroy()`. I
> > > think this can be easy to detect but what about events? `death`event was
> > > changed to `exit`.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to know what events an object supports or should I just
> > > check the node version (using process.version.node) and do my changes from
> > > there?
> > >
> > > I would prefer the first option as it's similar to feature detection. This
> > > way I would just check for available methods and events and use the
> > > preferred (and available) ones.
> > >
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