fsevents 1.2.9 and chokidar 2

[createthis]

seems like the latest version of cli requires chokidar 2 and fsevents 1.2.9, which is deprecated? I can't even install 1.2.9 anymore via npm. is anyone else experiencing this?

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[nicolo-ribaudo]

#10684, #9981 (comment), #10741

TL;DR: We can't upgrade to chokidar 3 because it doesn't support node 6, which we will still support until Babel 8.

Also, fsevents is an optional dependency which is only needed in MacOS, and won't be installed in any other OS.

[createthis]

@nicolo-ribaudo um. cool. but what is the resolution on MacOS?

[nicolo-ribaudo]

Until then, MacOS will use the deprecated version. It hasn't been deprecated for security reasons but only to speed up the upgrade to v2, so it's still safe.

[createthis]

The inability to install 1.2.9 turned out to be a local network issue. Thanks for taking the time to respond and sorry for the noise.