[Bug]: Engines section not respected

[rbirkgit]

Self-service

• I'd be willing to implement a fix

Describe the bug

We have an engine section in our packages. It stopped working when updating to Yarn 3.x (from 1.x)

To reproduce

We have this in our package.json

  "engines": {
    "node": ">=14.0",
    "yarn": ">=1.19"
  },

Environment

Windows 11
Node 16.14.2

Additional context

No response

[RDIL]

This isn't a bug, it's an intentional change. See https://github.com/devoto13/yarn-plugin-engines to re-add the functionality.

[rbirkgit]

Thanks for the link. May I ask why this is intentional? It seems like an important piece of functionality.

[RDIL]

Update: after looking back in the issue history, I remembered #1177 is a thing, which shows that the feature wasn't ported over, instead of being intentionally removed. My personal guess is that the modularity of modern Yarn makes it better as a plugin feature, so the maintainers instead opted to not intentionally port it.

[merceyz]

Duplicate of #1177