wish: document differences between "npm shrinkwrap" and "npm-shrinkwrap"

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wish: document differences between "npm shrinkwrap" and "npm-shrinkwrap"

markstos opened this issue 9 years ago · 4 comments

It would be helpful if the docs contained a section to summarize the differences between "npm-shrinkwrap" and "npm shrinkwrap".

Answer 1 · 2015-04-21T15:34:55.000Z

Confusingly, if you run man npm-shrinkwrap you'll get the docs for npm shrinkwrap, which makes it appear that the commands are the same, but npm-shrinkwrap --help documents options like sync which npm shrinkwrap does not have.

Answer 2 · 2015-04-22T18:05:54.000Z

The README has a motivation section documenting the things that npm-shrinkwrap works around.

Answer 3 · 2015-12-17T12:16:22.000Z

And documenting the rationale for making this an external package rather than an NPM contribution would be interesting too ;)

Answer 4 · 2015-12-17T14:30:40.000Z

Our experience has been that after upgrading to npm 3, we no longer needed npm-shrinkwrap and quit using it. npm shrinkwrap works well enough and supported is integrated into npm install, so commands like npm install --save also update the shrinkwrap file.