Allow comments (as special keys) in bower.json dependencies

[vjpr]

E.g. "//": "a comment"

Currently reports:

bower                        ENOTFOUND Package //=// not found

[benschwarz]

Not a bug. You can't write comments in JSON.

[vjpr]

Perhaps the issue title was misleading. I'm not asking for comments, but special treatment of the key // in dependencies.

When parsing the dependencies object it would just ignore keys with //.

However, the downsides are that multiple // keys in the dependencies object would make technically invalid JSON. Bower could still support it though if it wanted.

My use case is explaining why there are two versions of Bootstrap.

Currently I do this

  "version": "0.0.1",
  "//": [
    "Currently startup-framework depends on Bootstrap 2.3 and Flat UI 1.1.",
    "We use latest Bootstrap + Flat UI used for rest of app."
  ],
  "dependencies": {...}

...which works.

But I want to do this:

 "dependencies": {
    "//": "for reason X",
    "jquery": "~1.9",
    "//": "for reason Y",
    "jquery-1.8.3": "jquery#1.8.3",
    ...

[frankie-loves-jesus]

👍

[Yehonal]

Added this feature in hw2-bower fork: https://github.com/hw2-core/bower

[rlidwka]

@Yehonal , if you're doing a fork, it's better to just change config file format to one that has comments (look for json5 or yaml).

This feature is pretty useless as is, you won't get syntax highlighting for example, and json has a lot of issues in it besides comments.

[Yehonal]

Thank you for your suggestions, i'm not going to change json format and i've included this feature just as experimental ( i'll remove it soon or at least i can create specific "_private" keys for comments )

[benschwarz]

We've talked about this many times before — there is no interest in making such a change.