2.9.0 incompatible with angular 1.5.0 according to bower

[ghost]

As shown by bower list angular-translate is shown as incompatible with angular 1.5.0

#2.9.0
─ angular#1.5.0 incompatible with >=1.2.26 <=1.5 (1.4.9 available, latest is 1.5.1-build.4601+sha.c966876)

[knalli]

Good catch. I wonder why bower does not resolve 1.5 to 1.5.0. Sigh..

Until we fix this, use a resolution.

$ bower install angular-translate
bower angular-translate#~2.9.0 install angular-translate#2.9.0
bower angular#>=1.2.26 <=1.5   install angular#1.4.9

angular-translate#2.9.0 bower_components/angular-translate
└── angular#1.4.9

angular#1.4.9 bower_components/angular

$ bower install angular#1.5

Unable to find a suitable version for angular, please choose one:
    1) angular#>=1.2.26 <=1.5 which resolved to 1.4.9 and is required by angular-translate#2.9.0
    2) angular#1.5 which resolved to 1.5.0

Prefix the choice with ! to persist it to bower.json

? Answer !2
bower angular               resolution Saved angular#1.5 as resolution
bower angular#1.5              install angular#1.5.0

angular#1.5.0 bower_components/angular

$ cat bower.json
{
  "resolutions": {
    "angular": "1.5"
  }
}

[knalli]

Applied a patch 2.9.0.1 for the package angular-translate. Beware of caching issues.

$ bower install angular-translate#2.9.0.1

angular-translate#2.9.0.1 bower_components/angular-translate
└── angular#1.5.0

angular#1.5.0 bower_components/angular

[ArniDzhan]

could you please update release here too?
https://github.com/angular-translate/angular-translate/releases

[knalli]

It is actually not a release in this repo. It effects the bower repo only, this one here is not published to bower.

[ArniDzhan]

sorry, what I meant is that if you try to install without specifying version 2.9.0.1 then bower installs 2.9.0
I though it has to do with this project not being updated.

[tregusti]

Why not use <1.6 instead? <=1.5.0 will prevent patch updates for angular to be supported. And since angular follows semver, supporting 1.5.0 should also allow support for 1.5.1-9.

[knalli]

Eh.. good point. That's explaining why 1.5 has been used.

Ehm.. Angular (1.x) does not follow semver; and bower does not follow all details, too. Or why should <= 1.5 not work?

[tregusti]

My bad. No, they are not following semver, one dot off. But all releases in 1.5.x is most probably compatible with eachother. So you could support all of those. And even if <= 1.5 would work, as you wrote above, the intent is much more clear with < 1.6. At least for me.

[evilaliv3]

@knall: i think the same as tregusti that only 1.6 could allow the whole 1.5.x to be supported.

given the current "<=1.5.0" at every 1.5.1, 1.5.2 etc that will fore sure follow easily you will have always to make a change and release.

i would suggest to have < 1.6 to be sure to not require to release a package every time and it will all the user that using it, eventually will notice that a stupid change angular 1.5.6 will cause a breaking change for us and we will put then <=1.5.6 but at that time for a reason.

[knalli]

Yes, <1.6 is fine. Hold on.