For reference, this is the mail discussion about adding it
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cee101266d23a66d57e096da0b613fedd6e5572b2a101f5a4d4062c2@%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E
2018-01-02 18:56 GMT+01:00 Simon MacDonald <simon.macdon...@gmail.com>:
> Hey all,
>
> Recently we updated most of the core plugins to new major version.
> Unfortunately we forgot to update the "cordovaDependencies" section in
> package.json which prevents the next major version from being
> installed.
>
> For instance we bumped cordova-plugin-camera to version 4.0.0 but
> package.json still had:
>
> "engines": {
> "cordovaDependencies": {
> "3.0.0": {
> "cordova-android": ">=6.3.0"
> },
> "4.0.0": {
> "cordova": ">100"
> }
> }
> }
>
> so that prevented anyone not running cordova CLI version greater than
> 100 from installing via NPM. Since we are still at cordova 8.x this
> means no one could install the new plugin releases from NPM.
>
> Thank goodness Julio was paying attention over the holiday season and
> was able to get the ball rolling to fix the issue and get a bunch of
> point releases of the core plugins released so folks would not be
> stuck in the new year.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) How do we prevent this from happening in the future? Should we
> document that this change needs to be made?
> 2) Do we even need this section of package.json? What purpose does it hold?
>
> Thanks…
>
> Simon Mac Donald
> http://simonmacdonald.com
>
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