After publishing coffeescript@2.3.1_1, I noticed that the version of
babel-runtime (1.2.5) that is bundled into the compile-coffeescript plugin
was complaining about the presence of @babel/runtime@7.0.0-rc.1 in the
node_modules directory of Meteor 1.7.1-rc.3 apps, thanks to code added
recently to work around breaking changes in @babel/runtime@7.0.0-beta.56:
4d5fff99eb
The easiest way to fix this problem in the short term is to give the
compile-coffeescript plugin its own reliable copy of the @babel/runtime
npm package, rather than delegating to the version installed in the app.
The ideal long-term way to fix this problem would be to stop precompiling
Meteor compiler plugins before publishing them, and instead treat them
like any other Meteor package, which are compiled after installation.
Another issue that could have been prevented if compiler plugins were
compiled upon installation, like other packages: #10148
cc @hwillson @abernix @GeoffreyBooth
Small follow-up to #9018.
Note (especially @GeoffreyBooth): these version constraints do two things:
(1) specify a minimum version, and (2) fix the major version. In other
words, the coffeescript package should not need to be republished when we
publish new minor versions of these core packages in Meteor 1.5.2 or 1.6.
When/if we publish a new major version of these packages, the coffeescript
package can simply bump its version constraints, but that probably won't
happen any time soon. I think that's reasonable because a major version
bump suggests there are some significant changes that need to be
acknowledged by dependent packages.
They depend on core packages like caching-compiler, but coffeescript-compiler
can remain in non-core, so it can update more frequently as npm coffeescript
gets updated.
As discussed in https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/8777 it seems best
to always have the suffix on npm-wrapper packages.
If anything, as a reminder when bumping the version on wrapper packages,
but also just to generally make it more clear if a version suffixed with
`_1` is actually higher than a non-suffixed version or not.
