I've Just Liberated My Modules
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I've Just Liberated My Modules
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#2The package author decided to unpublish the package. A new author has now stepped in and re-published the package (yay open source!) and deps are fixed.
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#3The package author decided to unpublish the package. A new author has now stepped in and re-published the package (yay open source!) and deps are fixed.
And the reason for unpublishing is at https://medium.com/@azerbike/i-ve-just-liberated-my-modules-...
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#4This broke a number of builds that depended on the (previously) published modules, here's a GitHub issue showcasing that: https://github.com/azer/left-pad/issues/4
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#5The package author decided to unpublish the package. A new author has now stepped in and re-published the package (yay open source!) and deps are fixed.
And the reason for unpublishing is at https://medium.com/@azerbike/i-ve-just-liberated-my-modules-...
The incredible resilience/fragility of open source all in one thread: https://github.com/azer/left-pad/issues/4#issuecomment-20006...
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#6In case anyone is wondering what was in the now broken dependency - here is the source code in full:
module.exports = leftpad;
function leftpad (str, len, ch) {
str = String(str);
var i = -1;
if (!ch && ch !== 0) ch = ' ';
len = len - str.length;
while (++i Re: I've Just Liberated My Modules
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#8Update: NPM takes "unprecidented action [...] given the severity and widespread nature of the breakage" and un-un-publishes left-pad
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#9The package author decided to unpublish the package. A new author has now stepped in and re-published the package (yay open source!) and deps are fixed.
NPM 'un-un-published' the needed version:
https://twitter.com/seldo/status/712414400808755200
E: Did not realize I was linking the author their own tweets.
Re: I've Just Liberated My Modules
#10That's pretty much the worst handling of this issue I could ever imagine.
Spine-less flip-flopping–because taking a stand would have been too inconvenient. What did people expect from some 20 year olds managing a centralized piece of infrastructure?