How about this fix for npm: if (node version > package's "engines" tag), then don't track back to look for older versions.
And specifically, when tracking back to look for older versions, only look at older versions that HAVE the "engines" tag present, not ones lacking it. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Ian Young <[email protected]> wrote: > I share Matt's concern. I'd be bummed if I wanted to release a new version > of a module that depended on 0.8 features, but doing so would mean most of > my users on 0.6 got a broken version installed by default with only a > warning to dissuade them. Especially if there were perfectly good older > versions sitting in npm that worked on 0.6. > > Maybe npm could issue a warning on maximum version failures, but keep the > old behavior on minimum version failures. That's getting kinda complex, > though. > > I wonder if this isn't better solved by guiding the community towards > removing upper limits from engines in all but the most specific cases? > > > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:22:39 PM UTC-7, Matt Sergeant wrote: >> >> I'm -1 for reducing it to a warning. By doing that you're taking the >> opposite assumption, that the person who wrote the package doesn't know >> what he/she's doing. What if the package uses domains and puts in engines: >> ">=0.8.0" ? By reducing it to a warning you're letting people's code fail >> at runtime instead of at install time. >> >> -- > 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
