null version detected for bower dependencies

[amk221]

When pulling a bower dependancy from a git url like: git://github.com/amk221/my-thing.git _#master_
the dependancy is determined to be 'not installed' (therefore builds fail).
It works without the #tag

[stefanpenner]

This also seems to be a problem if the destination repo has no bower.json file. Such as: https://github.com/furf/jquery-ui-touch-punch

I suspect if the folder exists, but no bower.json file exists we should likely just best-effort assume all is satisfied.

[quaertym]

I was not sure how to handle this. @stefanpenner I will try your suggestion.

[stefanpenner]

@quaertym Ya, I am not quite sure the best way either, maybe someone else has a better idea.

For reference my solution/workaround was to merely "vendor" this dependency and commit it to my project manually.

[quaertym]

@stefanpenner 👍 for vendor approach but I think many users are not aware of it. We should cover this use case anyway. There is also a problem with static files that bower manages see this pr #12.

[mixonic]

Yeah, this bit us as well today. Ugly and more than a bit perplexing.

[soulcutter]

I ran into this with an http dependency

    "sinon": "http://sinonjs.org/releases/sinon-1.12.1.js"

Not sure if it's relevant, but I did notice that bower_components/sinon does have a .bower.json file in there - is that artifact usable in lieu of a bower.json file?

[shaunc]

I ran into the same "sinon" issue ... and also now have a problem with antiscroll as installed by ember-cli-ember-table. Could someone explain the "vendor" workaround? I have got things working temporarily by simply deleting the reference in bower.json after I install, but this is obviously just a temporary patch for development.

[rupurt]

@amk221 @stefanpenner thanks for the suggestion. Is there any tooling support for vendoring a dependency or do I just need to put it in the my_ember_app/vendor directory manually?

I've got it working manually but it would be nice if there was a command I could run to update the package.