stephenplusplus/grunt-wiredep

Redundancy?

dderiso opened this issue · 3 comments

dderiso commented

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for developing this awesome package! These appear to point to the same repo, but have different names and versions. Is there a difference or are they redundant? Wiredep looks newer in grunt, is this the package we should use?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-bower-install
https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-wiredep

Note some devs are confused here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18814806/can-bower-automatically-write-script-tags-into-index-html

Thanks!

Cheers,
Dave

CWSpear commented

grunt-bower-install is an old, deprecated version. It was renamed grunt-wiredep some time back (wiredep is the tool it's based on, and grunt-wiredep is just a grunt wrapper for it).

The grunt-bower-install GitHub repo was forwarded (if you go to https://github.com/stephenplusplus/grunt-bower-install, you'll note you're forwarded to https://github.com/stephenplusplus/grunt-wiredep), but it appears that the same wasn't done for npm.

@stephenplusplus do you know if there's a way to forward an npm package? I don't think there is, but I do know there is that deprecate thing that we should maybe use to point people to the new and updated package.

stephenplusplus commented

When a user installs grunt-bower-install, here's what they get:

npm WARN deprecated grunt-bower-install@1.6.0: use grunt-wiredep instead

It's not much, but that's how packages look when they're deprecated. We want users to know there's an alternative, but we can't destroy the code their project depends on. If they prefer grunt-bower-install, or simply don't need any of the upgrades or re-configurations newer versions of grunt-wiredep have made, they don't have to upgrade.

As for the SO issue, it's already cleared up in the comments the project was renamed, and old links redirect to this repo. There's not much left to do, although I added a comment onto my original answer that explains it was renamed.

Thanks for the kind words @dderiso!

CWSpear commented

@stephenplusplus maybe add a note and link to https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-bower-install? I'm surprised there's nothing else there that says it's deprecated (like a badge npm adds on its own when you deprecate).