20.12.2013, 00:13, "Sam Roberts" <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Alex Kocharin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  So if something needs to be republished, maintainer will be
>>  forced to change version number (or add a build number although it's now
>>  ignored by npm).
>
> I've found force republish invaluable in the last weeks when publishes
> to npmjs.org silently half-work, leaving the tarball missing from
> cloudfare. I'd prefer a build number, but like you say, its not
> respected by npm, and I'm not really happy with having to use patch
> number as a publish-retry number.

What about using fourth number for it? Like "1.2.3-4"? If you document out what 
this versioning means, it'll be fine since immutability is much more valuable 
here than strict adherence to semver (which is proven to be a bad default 
anyway).

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