[4.0] Outdated dependency - chosen-js

[C-Lodder]

Expected version: 1.8.7
Actual version: 1.6.2

[brianteeman]

This one is intentional

[C-Lodder]

Why would it be intentional?

[brianteeman]

Because they broke BC iirc

[wilsonge]

We can probably try and figure out an upgrade path - given chosen itself looks like it's about to die harvesthq/chosen@91041bc

[C-Lodder]

I thought Chosen was replaced with Choices/Awesomplete?
Is is still being used in certain places?

[wilsonge]

As far as I know it's not used anymore in core. But it never got removed after choices got added - and as the api's in php for the two methods are fairly different - It's probably one of those things that will stay there forever for the upgrade path but as deprecated method

EDIT: Did a quick search and there's one place left in com_privacy in the frontend (looks like an oversight rather than intentional) - plus an unused-in-core deprecated tags field method.

[Fedik]

hm maybe we can find a way to drop it somehow? not really much fun to keep this legacy for long,
it would be known b.c. break

[wilsonge]

#28247 Chosen got dropped from the view as expected

[wilsonge]

PR #28354