No longer installs on Node 0.8

[tschaub]

I imagine the response here will just be "upgrade," but I thought I'd open an issue anyway. Because node-tar has a ~ dependency on fstream and fstream was just released with a ^ dependency on graceful-fs, node-tar no longer installs on Node 0.8.

npm ERR! Error: No compatible version found: graceful-fs@'^3.0.2'
npm ERR! Valid install targets:
npm ERR! ["1.0.0","1.0.1","1.0.2","1.1.0","1.1.1","1.1.2","1.1.3","1.1.4","1.1.5","1.1.6","1.1.7","1.1.8","1.1.9","1.1.10","1.1.11","1.1.12","1.1.13","1.1.14","1.2.0","1.2.1","1.2.2","1.2.3","2.0.0","2.0.1","2.0.2","2.0.3","3.0.0","3.0.1","3.0.2"]
npm ERR!     at installTargetsError (/Users/tschaub/.nvm/v0.8.26/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:719:10)
npm ERR!     at /Users/tschaub/.nvm/v0.8.26/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:641:10
npm ERR!     at saved (/Users/tschaub/.nvm/v0.8.26/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js:138:7)
npm ERR!     at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:297:15)
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!     <[email protected]>

Assuming people want to test on Node 0.8 (e.g. on Travis), I'm interested to hear suggestions for modules that depend on node-tar.

I think these are the alternatives:

• shrinkwrap
• wait for a release of 0.8 that includes a version of npm that uses a version of semver that can parse ^.

[spolu]

yep even 0.10.12 does parses ^. Upgrading to 0.10.28 solved the issue.

[isaacs]

nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#7797