Dependencies installed can be different than what is in donejs-cli

[matthewp]

This was reported in gitter:

https://gitter.im/donejs/donejs?at=56f44b78d39de41b495d87b2

What's interesting is that most of the package.json is up-to-date, it's just the dependency list that is not.

[matthewp]

Hey @tracer99, in the folder where you are initing from, do you have a node_modules/ folder, and does that node_modules folder have a donejs-cli subfolder?

[justinbmeyer]

I once found an error because the parent folder had a node_modules so parts of the CLI didn't work.

[tracer99]

I ran init in my home dir. I don't have a node_modules dir there.
Of note is that the directory I initialized the project already existed.
That directory did not have a node_modules dir or anything that would have conflicted. It was a boilerplate git project setup by our system.

[matthewp]

@tracer99 Did the folder have a package.json by any chance?

[tracer99]

Nope.

[tracer99]

I re-did an init on a clean install (not into an existing dir)
Just to be safe:

node -v
v0.12.12

npm cache clear

donejs -V
0.8.0

This is the package.json that was generated https://gist.github.com/tracer99/85d10956dc20a170fa55

[matthewp]

Anything in the existing directory at all?

[tracer99]

We have a boilerplate new git project init on our git server. This is what it creates and what the dir had:

.gitignore
Makefile
README
bin/README
docs/README
tests/README

[phillipskevin]

So you can see in that package.json that donejs-cli@0.7.0 was installed, so this is the 0.7.0 dependencies. I'm going to investigate how it's possible that an older cli was installed.

[phillipskevin]

Ok, I was able to reproduce this issue.

Prior to 0.9, this issue could occur if you had a package.json in any parent directory of where you're initializing a new app.

$ donejs -V
0.7.2
$ donejs init
...
$ cat package.json | grep donejs-cli
"donejs-cli": "^0.7.0"
$ mkdir -p foo/bar/baz/zero-eight-app
$ cd foo/bar/baz/zero-eight-app/
$ npm i -g donejs@0.8
$ donejs init
...
$ cat package.json | grep donejs-cli
    "donejs-cli": "^0.7.0",
$ mkdir ../zero-nine-app
$ cd ../zero-nine-app
$ npm i -g donejs@0.9
$ donejs init
...
$ cat package.json | grep donejs-cli
"donejs-cli": "^0.9.4",