support for newer versions of node.js

[nreese]

When doing an npm install with newer versions of node.js (for example v4.2.1), npm returns lots of errors like

../node_modules/nan/nan.h:261:25: error: redefinition of '_NanEnsureLocal' NAN_INLINE v8::Local _NanEnsureLocal(v8::Local val) {

and

.node-gyp/4.2.1/include/node/v8.h:221:5: error: assigning to 'v8::Object *volatile' from incompatible type 'v8::Value *'

Any idea why newer versions of node.js choke on npm install? Are there any plans to update sinopia to support newer versions of node?

[samithaf]

I am using node 4.2.0 and works perfectly well. In my case Sinopia is running on a docker container

[davidmarkclements]

@nreese is sinopia failing to install entirely, or are you just seeing these C errors?

If the latter, then I'm betting it's fs-ext, which is listed as an optionalDependency in sinopias package.json:

  "optionalDependencies": {
    "fs-ext": ">=0.4.1 <1.0.0-0",
    "crypt3": ">=0.1.6 <1.0.0-0"
  },

(https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia/blob/master/package.yaml#L51-L55)

Which means there's likely a js fallback or maybe some kind of graceful degradation

[nreese]

The issue I am seeing is closed with PR https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia/pull/367. When will this be merged into the baseline?

Nathan

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:56 AM, David Mark Clements < [email protected]> wrote:

@nreese https://github.com/nreese is sinopia failing to install entirely, or are you just seeing these C errors?

If the latter, then I'm betting it's fs-ext, which is listed as an optionalDependency in sinopias package.json:

"optionalDependencies": { "fs-ext": ">=0.4.1 <1.0.0-0", "crypt3": ">=0.1.6 <1.0.0-0" },

(https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia/blob/master/package.yaml#L51-L55)

Which means there's likely a js fallback or maybe some kind of graceful degradation

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[ghost]

Some of us who depend on sinopia are working on continuing development as verdaccio:

https://github.com/verdaccio/verdaccio

As part of that, we are removing those optional dependencies. The C compiler will no longer be relevant, there won't be any nasty compiler warnings when installing, and it will improve multi-platform compatibility. npm and external Travis tests pass, too:

Verdaccio is not yet published to npm, but it will be soon. I just wanted to assure people that even though the original author may have abandoned it, it isn't the end of the line.