webpack-contrib/compression-webpack-plugin

Suggestion: Loosen webpack peer dependency

thenoseman opened this issue · 2 comments

thenoseman commented
  • Operating System: MacOs Catalina 10.15.7
  • Node Version: v15.14.0
  • NPM Version: 7.10.0
  • webpack Version: > 5.1.x
  • compression-webpack-plugin Version: > 6.1.1

Expected Behavior / Situation

Updating an vue app from webpack4 to webpack5.
Updating packages to versions using webpack 5 should update to a compatible webpack 5.* version.

Actual Behavior / Situation

Lot's of plugins require different versions of webpack which are not incompatible on the software side but just incompatible on the npm specification side.

eg. this plugin has:

"peerDependencies": {
    "webpack": "^5.1.0"
  },

This doesn't allow me to update to webpack 5.33.x even though it seems compatible (tests pass).

Modification Proposal

Perhaps it is possible to specify the peerDependency as >= 5.1.0 as stated in the changelog?
This would allow updating.

Thanks for your hard work on this, very much appreciated!

alexander-akait commented

^5.1.0 means 5.1.0 and above, Can you clarify what is the problem?

thenoseman commented

You are totally right and I'm totally wrong :)
Sorry. Mistook it for ~.

Then I have to look elsewhere. Thanks!

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