Igor Randjelovic

related: https://github.com/NativeScript/rfcs/discussions/44 also related specifically for ios - we have a Pod version (used in capacitor) that we can also start using for regular projects (not sure about the details,...

Sounds like a possibly a corrupted gradle cache on your system, I would try renaming ``` C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.gradle ``` to `.gradle-bkp` (just in case that doesn't help, you can restore it)...

Reboot the system? Sounds like something is keeping some files open in the background and preventing gradle from using them.

> throw the application out of the tray Can you explain what you mean by this? Perhaps a video would help.

I believe this is fixed by https://github.com/NativeScript/ios/commit/5a6c2ee5efa0c557c94ae56da0d3b3a31911d1b8 Which will soon be released, but should be available on [8.5.3-next.2023-07-28-5696348438](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nativescript/ios/v/8.5.3-next.2023-07-28-5696348438) for example. Also note, this usually wouldn't affect a production build -...

This is an issue introduced in NPM `10.4.0` - I have reported it here: https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/7355 **As a workaround:** ```bash npm i -g npm@~10.3 npm i -g nativescript ```

Fixed in https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-cli/releases/tag/v8.7.2

@edusperoni if this is still required, we can refactor it to use `getDependencyVersion` util from #10520

If it's helpful, here are the manifests before/after including `fullMetadata: true` Without `fullMetadata: true` ```js { name: 'fsevents', version: '2.3.3', devDependencies: { 'node-gyp': '^9.4.0' }, dist: { integrity: 'sha512-5xoDfX+fL7faATnagmWPpbFtwh/R77WmMMqqHGS65C3vvB0YHrgF+B1YmZ3441tMj5n63k0212XNoJwzlhffQw==', shasum:...

Thanks for confirming, indeed that sounds more reasonable as an explanation - I wouldn't expect optional dependencies to fail a global install. I do wonder when that `install: 'node-gyp rebuild'`...