aboutcode-org / aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit
Support npm dependencies with "weird" versions
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Per https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/configuring-npm/package-json#dependencies the version of a dependency can be various things:
- URLs as Dependencies: "http://asdf.com/asdf.tar.gz",
- Git URLs as Dependencies: See https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/configuring-npm/package-json#git-urls-as-dependencies ... this is using a VCS_URL-os-SPDX and pip-like syntax
- GitHub URLs: user/repo#feature\/branch
- Local Paths: "bar": "file:../foo/bar" ....
These versions end up in the package-lock.json too and they are not really versions.
We should instead treat them as requirements and not as concrete versions.
This is also impacting ScanCode.io BTW
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