Versioning issue with 0.2.0-beta4

[bbroeksema]

I was trying to install eclipse orion, which has a dependency on node-inspector ~0.2.0-beta3. As a result it tried to install the latest beta: 0.2.0-beta4. This resulted in the following stack trace:

npm ERR! Error: invalid version: 0.2.0beta4
npm ERR! at validVersion (/usr/lib/nodejs/read-package-json/read-json.js:573:40)
npm ERR! at final (/usr/lib/nodejs/read-package-json/read-json.js:323:23)
npm ERR! at /usr/lib/nodejs/read-package-json/read-json.js:139:33
npm ERR! at cb (/usr/lib/nodejs/slide/lib/async-map.js:48:11)
npm ERR! at /usr/lib/nodejs/read-package-json/read-json.js:251:40
npm ERR! at fs.js:268:14
npm ERR! at /usr/lib/nodejs/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:103:5
npm ERR! at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)

I've been digging a bit and found an issue with the tar ball at http://registry.npmjs.org/node-inspector/-/node-inspector-0.2.0beta4.tgz:
The version property in the package.json in the tar says 0.2.0beta4.

To solve my issue I changed the version in pacakge.json to 0.2.0-beta4 (note the additional '-') and recreated package.tgz to make the install succeed.

[bajtos]

Hi @bbroeksema, thank you for reporting the issue.

First of all, 0.2.0 betas are over a year old now and no longer supported. Please open an issue in eclipse orion to upgrade to a more recent version.

When I inspected data in the public registry, there are both "0.2.0-beta4" and "0.2.0beta4" versions, seems that "0.2.0beta4" is automatically redirected to "0.2.0-beta4".

I tried to install the Node Inspector myself and it worked well:

$ npm install node-inspector@0.2.0beta4
$ npm install node-inspector@0.2.0-beta4

What version is your npm client? Mine is 1.4.6.

$ npm -v
1.4.6

[bbroeksema]

Hi @bajtos, thanks for the quick heads up. I looked up my npm version and it was at 1.2.18 on ubuntu (no more recent version provided). After upgrading it using npm install -g npm and removing the ubuntu provided one I didn't get this issue anymore. So it seemed to have been an npm issue.

After updating npm I was able to install orion with any manual fiddling or other problems. Closing the issue.

[kenwalker]

I've logged the bug at Orion to address the out of date module

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=432107