On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 6:54 AM Mark Banner <mban...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I'd like to bump the minimum version of node to 8.12.0 (from 8.11.0) and > npm to 6.4.1 (from 5.6.0). > > The reason is that we are seeing occasional issues when we update our > in-tree ESLint versions that mean that especially Windows users can get > into a broken state and need to remove the node_modules directory before > continuing. > > npm version 6.x has support for the `npm ci` command which automatically > removes node_modules and installs to match with `package-lock.json`. > > At the moment, if we detect > 6.x, then we automatically use the `npm > ci` command. However, most installs have just 5.6.0, so I'd like to bump > both the version downloaded to .mozbuild, and the minimum requirement. > > At some stage we should consider node 10 (the current LTS), but we may > want to do a review of Linux distributions to see how it affects them. > > If there's any feedback, please respond here or direct to me. If I've > not heard anything in a week or so, I'll start making it happen. > As somebody who is trying to add new things that look like `npm ci` in the happy case and have to do the same machinations as ESLint does in the unhappy case, I'm all for bumping our minimum version of NPM. The thing I worry about is releasing a new MozillaBuild version. Is that easy? (I hope the answer is yes.) Thanks for driving this! Nick
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