Restore node 8 support - Githubissues

hdgarrood commented 5 years ago

Replace use of npcache with cacache. The npcache package is a shallow wrapper over cacache with some tweaks to the API it provides, but it refuses to run with npm < 6.9.0, which makes node 8 support difficult (because node 8 comes with an older npm).
Use the env-paths package to decide where to put the cached binary. One of the things npcache does is that it uses npm's cache directory by default; switching to cacache means that we need to work out where to store caches by ourselves.
Replace use of require('fs').promises with require('util').promisify because the former is not provided in node 8.

Fixes #2

garyb commented 5 years ago

How about we set Travis up on this, and pin the node version to whatever we decide to support too?

hdgarrood commented 5 years ago

Yes, good idea, I'll do that next. I would like to go slightly further though: perhaps one job pinned to the minimum node version we support, and then one job for the latest release in each even-numbered release series, so e.g. at the moment we'd have 8.3.0, 8.x latest, 10.x latest, and 12.x latest. See also https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/

purescript / npm-installer

Restore node 8 support #7