Sinon: yo aio-angular is not successful since it depends on sinon 1.15.0 js file

[rahulmr]

The resolution could be posting the 1.15.0 js in the releases link
http://sinonjs.org/releases/ like below
http://sinonjs.org/releases/sinon-1.15.0.js

• Sinon version : Cannot verify this, as I don't know how to.
• Environment : Windows 7, node 7.5.0 and npm 4.1.2
• Example URL : https://github.com/PinkyJie/generator-aio-angular
• Other libraries you are using: aio-angular and bower with angular-mocks

What did you expect to happen?
yo aio-angular should successfully run and there should not be any error for installing bower components

What actually happens
Getting error while perform yo aio-angular

bower sinon#*                            resolve http://sinonjs.org/releases/sinon-1.15.0.js#*
bower sinon#*                           download http://sinonjs.org/releases/sinon-1.15.0.js
bower sinon#*                              EHTTP Status code of 404

How to reproduce
Refer site - https://github.com/PinkyJie/generator-aio-angular
install yeoman generator and aio-angular generator
create a folder / directory and cd to that directory and perform below steps.

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-aio-angular
yo aio-angular

[mantoni]

I think the aio-angular thingy should take the releases from the zip files associated with the GitHub tags, and not from the homepage. We might even decide to rename that folder. It's not reliable.

[GordonMohrin]

same problem at bard.js:
https://github.com/wardbell/bardjs/pull/46/commits/daac0f97ffc0ffde391615a4bb86d4e451ee0bef

  -    "sinon": "http://sinonjs.org/releases/sinon-1.15.0.js"
  +    "sinon": "^1.15.0"

[mantoni]

Thanks. Using npm is even better.

[fatso83]

This is an issue with flaky setup of external projects, not sinon itself. Closing as tips for fixing this has been given and there is not much we can do here.

[rahulmr]

Bit confused, what should be my take here? How should I fix this locally? Ask whom to fix it? :)

[mantoni]

@rahulmr As you stated in the aio-angular issue, they should use the npm dependency instead of the website URL.

[mantoni]

The files have been restored in #1308.