The release process has a dependency on shx

[mpkorstanje]

🤔 What's the problem you've observed?

$ git clean -dfx # Important, otherwise node_modules may stick around
$ polyglot-release 20.0.0
sh: 1: shx: not found
npm ERR! code 127
npm ERR! path /home/mpkorstanje/Projects/cucumber/messages/javascript
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c -- shx echo "// This file is automatically generated using npm scripts" > src/version.ts && echo "export const version = '${npm_package_version}'" >> src/version.ts

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/mpkorstanje/.npm/_logs/2022-11-14T14_19_39_663Z-debug-0.log

Because we invoke some shell scripts around the build:

messages/javascript/package.json

Line 35 in f4c6267

"version": "shx echo \"// This file is automatically generated using npm scripts\" > src/version.ts && echo \"export const version = '${npm_package_version}'\" >> src/version.ts",

This requires either installing dev dependencies before releasing or installing shx globally.

✨ Do you have a proposal for making it better?

Either

• remove the (need for) shell scripts;
• or add a check for shx to polyglot-release

https://github.com/cucumber/polyglot-release/blob/fc50e6fdf3ab2f8af5f140064887667eab9785e7/polyglot-release#L125-L127