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rails / ruby-coffee-script

Ruby CoffeeScript Compiler
http://coffeescript.org/
MIT License
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Please use version bounds #19

Closed GeoffreyBooth closed 7 years ago

GeoffreyBooth commented 7 years ago

CoffeeScript 2 is coming, and it will be a breaking-change release of CoffeeScript that outputs ES2015 syntax. Code intended for browsers will need to be further processed by Babel or a similar tool.

It looks to me like this gem pulls in CoffeeScript by simply pulling the latest from the master branch on https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/. This seems brittle, to say the least; if 2.0.0 gets merged into master, this gem will suddenly break.

I suggest that instead of git cloneing the repo, you use npm install and pull a specific version or version bound, e.g. npm install coffeescript@1.x to get the latest 1.x version but not 2.x.

rafaelfranca commented 7 years ago

Thank you for the issue. We don't pull the latest commit from master. We only release the code in the tagged releases of the coffeescript repository.