Strip channel when calling semver.satisfies to allow custom channels

[fasterthanlime]

The semver packages doesn't seem to have any problems dealing with custom channels when calling gt:

> semver.gt('v0.14.1-canary', 'v0.14.0-canary')
true

But satisfies doesn't seem to support them:

> semver.satisfies('v0.14.1-canary', '>=v0.14.0-canary')
false

As a result, nuts always returns HTTP 204 for URLs like:

curl "http://nuts-canary.itch.ovh/update/darwin_x64/0.14.0-canary"

This patch strips the channel before calling semver.satisfies, which fixes the issue for us.

[SamyPesse]

Sorry for the delay.

I'm not sure it's a "good" idea. I understand the problem (I'm having it with semver and gitbook-cli/gitbook).

But here are the expectations: for our application:

// We want to ship the next beta (or normal)  to user having the beta
satisfies('>=5.0.0-beta.0', '5.0.0-beta.1') == true
satisfies('>=5.0.0-beta.0', '5.0.1') == true

// We don't want to ship the beta to user using the normal version
satisfies('>=4.9.0', '5.0.0-beta.1') == false

I think that your PR will break this behaviour, since:

satisfies('>=4.9.0', '5.0.0-beta.1') -> satisfies('>=4.9.0', '5.0.0') -> true

[fasterthanlime]

I agree that it might not be a good idea for everyone.

Personally, I've set up 'unstable' release in a completely different github repo, with a different nuts instance, everything different — I wanted it to be invisible to most users & have the deploy process not touch the main repo at all.

Both approaches have drawbacks, tbh. Do you think there's a way to support both with an option without making the code too complex/costly to maintain? It is a very small patch but as a maintainer I'd completely understand if you'd rather not support it in your version.

[fathert0rque]

Some more clarity on the matter

https://github.com/npm/node-semver#prerelease-tags

Are there any plans to be able to opt-in for updates to very early channels like Alpha? It would be useful to be able to push updates to QA as they come.

[loprima-l]

Hi, I merged the project to a new repo to start maintain it, I would be glad if you can put your pull request here : https://github.com/loprima-l/nuts-2