Issues with platform version resolution with Bower and 0.2.1

[bergie]

I'm seeing this quite a bit with bower install:

So for whatever reason, it looks like Bower is resolving the dependency sometimes to 0.1.4, and sometimes 0.2.1. With 0.1.4 you get a crash when Polymer loads.

The current solution is to force dependency resolution to latest via bower install -F, but even then you do see this message:

but at least Polymer is usable.

I've stated the Polymer dependency to 0.2.1, and Polymer is the only package I'm using that depends on platform.

[forresto]

This is the bower.json from my bower-installed polymer:

{
  "name": "polymer",
  "description": "Polymer is a new type of library for the web, built on top of Web Components, and designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers.",
  "homepage": "http://www.polymer-project.org/",
  "keywords": [
    "util",
    "client",
    "browser",
    "web components",
    "web-components"
  ],
  "author": "Polymer Authors <polymer-dev@googlegroups.com>",
  "version": "0.2.1",
  "main": [
    "polymer.js"
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "platform": "Polymer/platform#0.1.4"
  }
}

Which isn't the same as https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/blob/master/bower.json

[bergie]

The reason for this mismatch is that the Polymer package in the Bower registry is components/polymer. In there for 0.2.1 we have platform 0.1.4 as the dependency

In Polymer/polymer the dependency is set correctly to 0.2.1.

@azakus why the two different repositories with different state?

[dfreedm]

Ugh, looks like a merge fail into the components/polymer repo.

@bergie The reason there are two repos is legacy from when Polymer/polymer was a source repository and not just builds. It is a manual process to change where the endpoint is.

I've fixed the version issue in the bowerable repo, but it requires that you bower uninstall polymer, then bower cache clean polymer platform.

After that, polymer will install with the correct version of platform.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[dfreedm]

@addyosmani Can you help move bower/bower#120 (comment) along so we can drop the components/polymer repo?

[dfreedm]

#441 was caused by this too :(