Workspace package with prerelease version and wildcard dep version

[wclr]

Say there is a structure:

/root
 /packages/
  /a <- name: @mon/a, version: "1.0.0-rc1" //version contains prerelease id
  /b <- dependenciy: "@mon/a": "*"

yarn gives an error:

error Couldn't find package "@mono/a@*" required by "@mono/[email protected]" on the "npm" registry.

Probalby shoul just consider this available "prerelease" version if wilcard is used in dep?

[mrjackdavis]

I just hit this issue. And have mixed thoughts.

On one hand, it would be great to have a wildcard which also applied to prereleases.
On the other it's probably not a good idea to deviate from existing syntax set by npm. I would especially loath changing the meaning of existing syntax.

Feels bad, but perhaps a new wildcard like % is the only viable choice if this was to be fixed.

Until such a solution is reached (if ever?), I'd recommend scripting the update of dependency versions tracked in your yarn workspace.

[arcanis]

We actually already slightly deviate in one specific case: peer dependencies warnings (because we consider that the intent isn't ambiguous here). We could do that for workspaces as well.

[georeith]

To anyone else who came here because they use are using lerna and yarn and have * in their root package.json pointing at a module in the monorepo itself and want to do a prerelease of the monorepo.

Replace the * with a relative file:packages/name-of-your-package and you're golden.