Complains for deprecated move-file

[crystalfp]

Installing the package gives the following warning:

npm install --save-dev @electron/rebuild
npm WARN deprecated @npmcli/[email protected]: This functionality has been moved to @npmcli/fs

The installed versions are:

• "@electron/rebuild": "^3.5.0"
• npm: 10.3.0
• node: 21.5.0
• os: Windows 11 64 bits

Thanks for looking!
mario

[ThomasGreenspan]

Hi, is this being looked at by anyone?
There are a number of deprecated packages/versions that are indirect dependencies of this package:

• inflight
• npmlog
• @npmcli/move-file
• rimraf (old version)
• are-we-there-yet
• glob (old version)
• gauge

I may have missed something but as far as I can tell, every single one of them would be taken care of by updating the node-gyp dep to v10+.
There is another issue that mentions the same thing here: #1116

It seems to have some activity but not sure how actively this is being worked on. Not sure how much trouble updating the dependency would be but there's a chance it's very easy. Would be nice for someone to look at it or explain why it's not possible right away.

Thanks!
Thomas

[MarshallOfSound]

Bumping node-gyp to v10 is non trivial as it drops support for certain major versions of node.js that the rest of electrons official ecosystem packages support. Updating to that would have a ripple effect across the ecosystem that we aren't looking to effect right now.

There is work being done in the background to make updating node-gyp to 10 not a breaking change but it's not super urgent. E.g. this specific issue, a couple of deprecation warnings are by no means the end of the world 😄

[ThomasGreenspan]

Got it! Totally agree on lack of urgency, a few deprecation warnings aren't a big deal. Was just a bit of cleanup if it was easy.
Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated