That leaves all of the other packaged already published and relying on a specific version broken.
On Dec 19, 2013, at 11:46AM, Dean Landolt <[email protected]> wrote: > Even in that case it would still seem better to allow unpublish and bump the > version number, right? > > Immutability (plus unpublish) would make the npm registery an even better > place. > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]> > wrote: > There have also been security issues where old packages were shipped with > sensitive information that needed to be ripped out. > > On Dec 18, 2013, at 5:07PM, Forrest L Norvell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I agree that packages should rarely be changed, but in practice if there's a >> major bug or the packaging gets totally botched (which has happened to me a >> few ties), it's good to have the ability to fix the problem in-place. I'm >> less enamored on the possibility of removing packages once they've been >> published. That seems like it's almost always a bad idea, and I would be in >> favor of altering the registry to disallow it. >> >> F >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you want this level of static dependencies you can check in your deps >> into node_modules in your git tree or use git submodules in there. Git does >> guarantee that the thing you point to can't be changed because the hash *is* >> the hash of the content. If anything changes, the hash changes. >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Brian Lalor <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Dec 18, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Richard Marr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm working on an app where security is an issue, and among the (many) >>> things that I'm frothingly paranoid about is the possibility of malicious >>> (or more likely just untested) code somehow getting into our app, even >>> though we're using shrink-wrapped versions. It means we'll have to be much >>> more careful with the way we proxy the npm registry. >> >> I’d like to know this, as well. One of the guarantees made by the Maven >> central repository is that artifacts (packages) can check in, but they can >> never check out. I frankly don’t think NPM provides this type of assurance, >> but it should. 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