Node-sass: Drop Node EOL versions support

Created on 7 Sep 2016 · 10Comments · Source: sass/node-sass

Since node is dropping it from even security patching https://nodejs.org/en/blog/community/v5-to-v7/

[ ] Remove from Appveyor
[ ] Remove from Travis
[ ] Update install script to print the version isn't supported. Something about the fact that it must be manually built and no bugs will be investigated.
[ ] Update README supported version

0.10 and 0.12 may need their own issues depending on the timing since they EOL October and December respectively.

Discussion - Proposal npm build npm install

Source

nschonni

👍1

Most helpful comment

I see it as one of those "why can't I run Windows XP forever things". Yes, it still works, but it's better to encourage people off platforms that don't get security updates anymore (especially devs)

nschonni on 7 Sep 2016

👍2

All 10 comments

We can make reasonable determinations about support from the download count of the release binaries. We get +2M installs a month so we should have a good data. Download counts are exposed via the HG release API.

https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#get-a-single-release

xzyfer on 7 Sep 2016

OK, I looked at the 3.8.0 release metrics since it was around for 2 months.
iojs seems to have only ~50 downloads per platform/arch, so I think it is safe to drop now.
5/47 still seems to have quite a few downloads, so I'm thinking that a warning message might be better for now

nschonni on 7 Sep 2016

👍1

Dropping iojs support has come up a few times. My argument has always been that it really costs us nothing to support old version of Node at this point aside from CI time. Is there a particular reason you want to drop older versions?

It's also worth noting we're planning to release LibSass 3.4 soon. This will essentially be a major version bump for LibSass. I was thinking this might be an opportune time to bump the major for node-sass if we had something to land.

xzyfer on 7 Sep 2016

👍1

I see it as one of those "why can't I run Windows XP forever things". Yes, it still works, but it's better to encourage people off platforms that don't get security updates anymore (especially devs)

nschonni on 7 Sep 2016

👍2

I don't necessarily agree. It's not hurting anyone, doesn't cause any work for us. Either way I don't feel comfortable dropping any support without a major bump given the most people will lock to ^3.

xzyfer on 7 Sep 2016

👍1

Looks like something went wrong here :) Mildly freaked out

xzyfer on 8 Sep 2016

Ah, that's what happened #1705 was the one that was supposed to autoclose with that issue

nschonni on 8 Sep 2016

@nschonni So which versions are currently in-scope for removing within this issue?