Broken due to the disappearance of vargs

[danyshaanan]

vargs has disappeared, probably unpublished:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/vargs
which breaks WD.

[danyshaanan]

An old installation containing vargs reveales this package.json file:

{
  "name": "vargs",
  "description": "practical variable argument handling",
  "url": "http://github.com/cloudhead/vargs",
  "keywords": [
    "argument",
    "arguments"
  ],
  "author": {
    "name": "Alexis Sellier",
    "email": "self@cloudhead.net"
  },
  "contributors": [],
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "main": "./lib/vargs",
  "directories": {
    "lib": "./lib"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=0.1.93"
  },
  "_id": "vargs@0.1.0",
  "_nodeSupported": true,
  "_npmVersion": "0.2.7-2",
  "_nodeVersion": "v0.3.1-pre",
  "dist": {
    "tarball": "http://registry.npmjs.org/vargs/-/vargs-0.1.0.tgz",
    "shasum": "6b6184da6520cc3204ce1b407cac26d92609ebff"
  },
  "_shasum": "6b6184da6520cc3204ce1b407cac26d92609ebff",
  "_resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/vargs/-/vargs-0.1.0.tgz",
  "_from": "vargs@>=0.1.0 <0.2.0",
  "readme": "ERROR: No README data found!"
}

which points to this github repo which was last updated 5 years ago, but has no package.json. Odd! Notice that cloudhead.net has been squatted. (cloudhead.io still active and belongs to the author).

Anyway, looks like something went very wrong there, and the solution should be to replace it with another module or implement the functionality within this package.

[danyshaanan]

@cloudhead

[wspittman]

DevDependency https://github.com/sebv/mocha-bdd-with-opts also depends on vargs, so even after the vargs functionality within WD was replaced, mocha-bdd-with-opts would need to be updated or replaced for WD to be working again.

[Richard-Walton]

I'm also having this issue. It breaks karma webdriver:

karma-runner/karma-webdriver-launcher#26

[Richard-Walton]

Seems to be an NPM issue. Temp workaround is here npm/npm#9177

[wspittman]

https://registry.npmjs.org/vargs appears to exist again.
The world is back to normal for me.