Semver and peerdependencies

[dignifiedquire]

After I started using proper semver versions for the canary releases currently integration tests are broken for the canary branch :(
The issue is that >= 0.12.0 does not include a version like 0.13.0-rc.0 as it only uses stable versions. Any ideas or thoughts on how to best fix this?

cc @karma-runner/contributors

Update

Removing all peerDependencies as describe below:

• karma-jasmine 2 (PR exists)
• karma-jasmine
• karma-mocha (PR exists)
• karma-qunit
• karma-junit-reporter
• karma-coverage
• karma-requirejs
• karma-dojo
• karma-live-preprocessor
• karma-html2js-preprocessor
• karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor
• karma-coffee-preprocessor
• karma-googmodule-preprocessor
• karma-phantomjs-launcher (PR exists)
• karma-chrome-launcher
• karma-ie-launcher
• karma-safari-launcher
• karma-firefox-launcher
• karma-sauce-launcher
• karma-browserstack-launcher
• karma-webdriver-launcher
• karma-opera-launcher
• karma-slimer-launcher
• karma-opera-launcher
• karma-script-launcher

External

• karma-webpack (PR exists)
• karma-babel

[dignifiedquire]

Adding this to all plugins should resolve the issue for the new versions:

"peerDependencies": {
  "karma": ">=0.9.0 || >=0.13.0-rc.0"
}

Edit: Not working as the above does not match 0.14.0-rc.0

[maksimr]

@dignifiedquire what about remove peerDependencies from plugins? :)

[dignifiedquire]

@maksimr I'm getting the feeling that removing it is the best way forward

[dignifiedquire]

After some more contemplation and references like npm/npm#5080 I think the way forward should be:

• Make karma (plugins) more intelligent and let them check the karma object they work with if there is a need to depend on specific features.
• Remove karma from peerDependencies and dependencies, except for grunt-karma which should have a direct dependency on karma as it requires it directly. There I will switch to using the proposed >= 0.12.0 || >= 0.13.0-rc.0 which will have to be updated for new releases.

If I don't hear any arguments against this, I will make the needed prs/changes starting tomorrow

// cc @karma-runner/contributors