Open Zimmi48 opened 4 years ago
Thanks for reporting this! To set expectations:
Finally, please be patient with the core team. They are trying their best with limited resources.
This should have been obvious from the start but I realize this only now: the error comes from the fact that somehow, this elm.json
file didn't have any write-permissions. I suppose this is therefore mainly a bug of elm-spa
, but I guess I'll still leave the issue open here because the Elm maintainers might still want to fix elm
to fail graciously in the case of a read-only elm.json
file.
Quick Summary: message triggered by
elm install elm/json
on a freshly created elm-spa application.SSCCE
Gives the error:
Additional Details
If this is not reproducible, this might be due to the way I installed Elm and elm-spa using Nix. I would appreciate if someone could tell me whether they can reproduce this issue using the most standard (npm) installation method.