We were just about to take a dependency on it for Azure. Is there an alternative recommended approach? I believe Heroku uses this as well.
Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: Bradley Meck Sent: 6/26/2012 10:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [nodejs] Re: remove "engines" from package.json? At least some PaaS use it. I think it it were tied to tests in some way it would be more meaningful for the average user, but for now it most commonly used for PaaS deploys. On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:06:52 AM UTC-5, Isaac Schlueter 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] 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 -- 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
