Error installing with Yarn (node >=6.9 required)

Subject of the issue

Since 2.13, engine in the package.json as been set to node 6.9 (released in october…). Had to update the global version of node.js. It makes yarn fail the install and throw this error :

yarn

yarn install v0.16.1 info No lockfile found. [1/4] 🔍 Resolving packages… [2/4] 🚚 Fetching packages… error angular-translate@2.13.0: The engine “node” is incompatible with this module. Expected version “>=6.9”. error Found incompatible module info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.

npm ERR! Darwin 16.1.0 npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/Cellar/node/6.8.0/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “run” “yarn” npm ERR! node v6.8.0 npm ERR! npm v3.10.8 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! 1001backend@0.0.0 yarn: yarn npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the 1001backend@0.0.0 yarn script ‘yarn’. npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the 1001backend package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! yarn npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: npm ERR! npm bugs 1001backend npm ERR! Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls 1001backend npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /Users/romainb/Code/1001backend-dev/npm-debug.log

npm ERR! Darwin 16.1.0 npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/Cellar/node/6.8.0/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “run” “super-install” npm ERR! node v6.8.0 npm ERR! npm v3.10.8 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! 1001backend@0.0.0 super-install: npm run yarn-install && npm run yarn npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the 1001backend@0.0.0 super-install script ‘npm run yarn-install && npm run yarn’. npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the 1001backend package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! npm run yarn-install && npm run yarn npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: npm ERR! npm bugs 1001backend npm ERR! Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls 1001backend npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /Users/romainb/Code/1001backend-dev/npm-debug.log

Your environment

• version of angular-translate : 2.13.0
• version of angular 1.5.8

Steps to reproduce

Have yarn, node >6.9 and try yarn add angular-translate@2.13.0

Expected behaviour

Should install angular translate

Actual behaviour

Crash, saying node should be “>=6.9”

[knalli]

Alternatively we remove the engine part (only in package.json, we have to leave it for nvm and travis). That’s not perfect, but perhaps more comfortable?

[knalli]

Rephrasing my post 4 days ago: This is primarily a dev-stack runtime. I (role of a package owner) simply do not care of older versions within my dev stack flow.

That is a little bit curious, because this package actually do not have any requirement to the npm/node environment (mainly a browser env target package).

Said that, the dependency is given out because we publish this package to npm directly. Maybe we have to consider making a dedicated package.