npm install on 0.8 broken

[knolleary]

npm install of console-browserify fails when using node 0.8.

npm ERR! Error: No compatible version found: date-now@'^0.1.4'
npm ERR! Valid install targets:
npm ERR! ["0.1.0","0.1.1","0.1.3","0.1.2","0.1.4","1.0.0","1.0.1"]
npm ERR!     at installTargetsError (/opt/node/node-v0.8.27-linux-    x64/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:719:10)
npm ERR!     at /opt/node/node-v0.8.27-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:641:10
npm ERR!     at saved (/opt/node/node-v0.8.27-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js:138:7)
npm ERR!     at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:302:15)
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!     <npm-@googlegroups.com>

npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-42-generic
npm ERR! command "/opt/node/node-v0.8.27-linux-x64/bin/node" "/opt/node/node-v0.8.27-linux-x64/bin/npm" "install" "console-browserify"
npm ERR! cwd /opt/node/node-v0.8.27-linux-x64/bin
npm ERR! node -v v0.8.27
npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.30

Changing the version dependency of date-now to ~0.1.4 works.

Original spotted when trying to install grunt-contrib-jshint on node 0.8 (which it claims support for)

[Raynos]

This fails because your using an old npm client.

Latest version of npm is 1.4.x.

Just upgrade npm (npm i npm@latest -g)

[knolleary]

Ah of course. Although this does still mean the package is broken for the version of npm that ships with node 0.8. Might be worth a note in the readme?

I originally hit this on our Travis ci build - found this work around.

[Raynos]

its not really worth a note because 1.5 is coming out soon and 1.2 is 3 versions old (really old).

The problem is no-one at travis cares enough to fix the 0.8 defaults :/