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I've Just Liberated My Modules

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The 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...

Re: I've Just Liberated My Modules

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In 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 
https://github.com/azer/left-pad/blob/master/index.js

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The 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

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That'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?

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