The only reason that I'm currently using the engines field is that I want to support the latest and greatest version of Node.js, I don't want to waste any of my time trying to support or back port stuff that is missing in older version of V8 or Node.js. What I do like to see in return / addition of this field is a way that could specify which version of our packages work with what node.js version.
On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Joshua Holbrook wrote: > We use the engines field for application deployment to nodejitsu, > since we need to know what version of node the user prefers their > application to run on. That said, this is for applications and not for > libraries, and I'm not sure it makes much sense for libraries > excepting for special cases where a deprecated version of a library is > known to only work with certain versions (in which case you set the > versions deliberately), which should be much less common now that the > 0.4/0.6 jump is complete. > > I suppose an engines field could also be useful for binary package > builds, maybe. Not sure. > > --Josh > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > Do people actually rely on the "engines" hash being respected in npm > > installs any more? It was super essential in the early days when the > > API was changing constantly, but now, it seems like it just makes it > > unnecessarily difficult to upgrade stuff. > > > > If no one is relying on this right now, I'm going to reduce it to a > > warning. If in time, people start complaining that the warning is to > > warny, we can remove it, and just let "engines" be a thing of the > > past. (Note that `npm init` already doesn't bother with it, and for a > > while has just defaulted to {"node":"*"}.) > > > > Please let me know what you think. Thanks :) > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]) > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]) > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > > > > -- > Joshua Holbrook > Engineer > Nodejitsu Inc. > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
