Latest version of Pretty Diff published to NPM

[prettydiff]

Published to the old namespace - https://www.npmjs.com/package/prettydiff

The option names have changed to a uniform naming convention. The application is new and completely rewritten from scratch in TypeScript. I will be looking at how to integrate this back into the project.

[Glavin001]

Awesome! 🎉

Pretty Diff version 100

Is it really version 100? I was expecting something like version 3.

[prettydiff]

Yeah, so back when NPM3 was unstable and kept breaking my package I closed out that namespace by pushing the version number up to 99. This was before I created the prettydiff2 namespace. The only way to use that original namespace is to push the version number above major version 99.

[Glavin001]

I thought you could publish major versions behind the highest major version 🤔... this is how two different major releases could have bug fixes published in a respective patch release. The only thing you should not be able to do is publish with the same version.

[prettydiff]

In semver major versions should be reserved for breaking changes. This update is certainly a breaking change as I changed the API. My major version options with NPM are to publish version 100 in the prettydiff package name, version 3 in the prettydiff2 package name, or create a new package name like prettydiff3

[Glavin001]

In semver major versions should be reserved for breaking changes.

Yes, of course.

I closed out that namespace by pushing the version number up to 99.

Was the version 99 published a real version of Pretty Diff at all? Sounded like it was simply a way close out the namespace -- although I do not understand why it was necessary 🤷‍♂️ . I figured you could unpublish these fake v99 releases and create v3 as the new highest major, but I digress.

or create a new package name like prettydiff3

👎

version 3 in the prettydiff2 package name,

I think publishing 3.0.0 to prettydiff2 package sounds acceptable then, such that the version number on npm actually reflects the Pretty Diff version number, which I presume is v3?

[prettydiff]

I was not aware that versions could be unpublished. I know that used to be possible, but I thought NPM eliminated that for security reasons. Yeah, 3.0.2 would be the most accurate version number.