Dependencies: component.json and package.json appear to conflict

qdw

I think I've found a bug in the declaration of dependencies.

In the DataTables-1.9.4.zip distribution, component.json reads

"dependencies": {
"jquery": "~1.8.0"
}

which means you must use 1.8.x (see the spec at http://plugins.jquery.com/docs/package-manifest/ and search for "Tilde Version Ranges").

However, package.json reads

"dependencies": {
"jquery": "1.4 - 1.8"
},

which allows a much wider range of jQuery versions.

Is this indeed a bug? If so, which dependency spec is the correct one?

Thanks!

allan

I think they are both wrong actually... In the 1.10 wip branch ( https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/tree/1_10_wip ) I've used:`"jquery": ">=1.7"` which I think is more correct (although please correct me if I'm wrong!).

I've also renamed component.json to bower.json which uses that versioning as well.

Regards,
Allan.

qdw

Excellent! Thanks for the info.

If you want to say "1.8 and up," I think the best way to do it is "jquery": ">=1.8.0". I'm not sure whether "query": ">=1.7" means "1.7.0 and up" or "major versions greater than 1.7" (i.e., 1.8 and up). The spec at http://plugins.jquery.com/docs/package-manifest/ seems ambiguous on that point, and I don't see anything at http://semver.org/ that makes it clear. In any case, I think "jquery": ">=1.8.0" is clearer to a human reader.

Does that make sense? I'm not an expert; I'm just going by what that spec says.

Thanks,
Quinn

allan

I've got to confess that I've found a number of the manifest specs that I've read (if they even exist!) either ambiguous or confusing. I would suspect that 1.8 will match 1.8.0 etc just fine (my own version matching functions do), but I don't see any hard in adding the `.0` . I'll get that done.

Allan