Pre-installations exits with non-zero status in 2.0.8

[slavafomin]

Hello there!

I have a Node.js application with a lot of dependencies, and it seems that one of them is using this module: typechecker@2.0.8. The problem is when I do npm i --production it fails on typecheker's pre-install script. Here's the output:

$ npm i --production
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@3.0.8: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
npm WARN deprecated lodash@2.4.1: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.3.0: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
npm WARN deprecated grunt-lib-contrib@0.7.1: DEPRECATED. See readme: https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-lib-contrib
npm WARN deprecated lodash@1.0.2: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated cross-spawn-async@2.2.4: cross-spawn no longer requires a build toolchain, use it instead!
npm WARN deprecated native-or-bluebird@1.1.2: 'native-or-bluebird' is deprecated. Please use 'any-promise' instead.

> typechecker@2.0.8 preinstall /tmp/testdrive-1.11.15-1468538515188/node_modules/.staging/typechecker-e85842ba
> node ./cyclic.js

And here's the dependency tree:

$ npm ls typechecker
testdrive@1.11.15 /home/sfomin/projects/testdrive
└─┬ sails@0.12.3
  └─┬ i18n@0.8.1
    └─┬ messageformat@0.3.1
      └─┬ watchr@2.4.13
        ├─┬ extendr@2.1.0
        │ └── typechecker@2.0.8 
        ├─┬ extract-opts@2.2.0
        │ └── typechecker@2.0.8 
        ├─┬ taskgroup@4.3.1
        │ └─┬ ambi@2.5.0
        │   └── typechecker@4.3.0 
        └── typechecker@2.1.0

It also looks, like the problem is not occurring every time, in some rare moments it works, I don't know why.

Please advise, any help will be highly appreciated. Thank you!

[slavafomin]

@bevry, @balupton, maybe you could update the dependencies or help otherwise?

[balupton]

Will update watchr shortly.

[balupton]

v2.5.0 of watchr is being released, so this will fix this - however, messageformat v0.3.1 is tied to v2.4 of watchr, so I've created this issue for it messageformat/messageformat#151

[slavafomin]

@balupton thanks for a quick solution! Keep up the good work!