fix require.extensions registration #3279
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You can now `require('coffee-script/register')` to manually register,
and the compiler auto-registers when directly running a coffee file.
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We should already have tests for this, so I'd say LGTM. |
…egistration fix require.extensions registration
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@michaelficarra @Nami-Doc We desperately need some documentation for this breaking change. I think it's currently only documented here: |
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We'll add it to the changelog when we make a release. Are you suggesting something more? We can make it bold our something. |
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Copy that thing somewhere so that people trying master don't have to hunt it down (even in the issues you quoted, the mechanism wasn't clearly stated), I guess the release notes on the website should be enough since that behavior is only documented there in the first place. |
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Okay. For anyone confused about this change, you now must explicitly register the compiler with
The former is the simplest approach if you already have a reference to the compiler, while the latter is handy for mocha configuration and similar needs. |
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It's probably worth stating in the relevant documentation that the extension will be 'auto-registered' when a file is run with |
As of [this PR](jashkenas/coffeescript#3279), CoffeeScript now requires Cakefiles to register their local coffee installation as to ensure version compatibility.
Ref #3141, #3054, #2323.