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Add note that only supported on node 8 and above #1053

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We do not have a stated policy for node support, and have long wanted to be able to use some new javascript language features. I would like to be clear for myself what we can and can't use without breaking clients.

Related issue is #1045

Solution

Say that we only support node 8 and higher in the README.

As per #1045, I suggest we actually stick to features supported by node 6 for now.

(I deliberately have not put node 8 as an actual requirement in the engines field in the package.json since we are still work on older versions at least currently.)

@shadowspawn shadowspawn added this to the v4.0.0 milestone Sep 22, 2019
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I had a second go, and moved this under the Support section instead of Installation. I also added a comment about the Issues page, partly to balance the TideLift info.

(I don't think Support would be the right place if we enforced the allowed Node version, but feels a reasonable fit since we are saying what we support rather than what is compatible.)

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@shadowspawn shadowspawn merged commit 3f7ef66 into tj:develop Sep 30, 2019
@shadowspawn shadowspawn deleted the feature/node-8 branch September 30, 2019 06:47
cscott added a commit to cscott/seek-bzip that referenced this pull request Jul 31, 2020
Because of the bump in mocha version to 8.0, we can no longer run tests
on Node.js v8.x and below: mochajs/mocha#4164

The fibers package at version 5.0 also doesn't support Node.js v10.x
or lower, although it seems to work fine in my limited testing.

The commander package requires node 6 or greater:
tj/commander.js#1053
cscott added a commit to cscott/seek-bzip that referenced this pull request Jul 31, 2020
This version drops compatibility for Node.js <= 10.x, and as such is a
semver major version bump.

To be clear, the code in this package hasn't changed; we've just
bumped the versions of dependencies.  The `commander` dep requires
node 6 ( tj/commander.js#1053 ) but the dev
dependencies require Node.js <= 8.x and are unsupported on Node.js <=
10.x.  I can't promise that things that aren't being tested continue
to work.
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