elm-package doesn't install a seemingly valid elm-package.json dependencies

[n1k0]

Using elm 0.18.0 installed from npm, using node v7.8.0 and npm v4.6.1.

In a new empty tmp directory, create a elm-package.json file with this content:

{
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "summary": "Bug reproduction",
    "repository": "https://github.com/foo/bar.git",
    "license": "MIT",
    "source-directories": ["."],
    "exposed-modules": [],
    "dependencies": {
      "elm-lang/core": "5.1.1 <= v < 6.0.0"
    },
    "elm-version": "0.18.0 <= v < 0.19.0"
}

Install:

$ elm-package install
Packages configured successfully!

Now look at the content of elm-stuff:

$ tree elm-stuff
elm-stuff
├── exact-dependencies.json
└── packages

1 directory, 1 file

Looks fine, right? Now inspect the packages folder, it's empty. And exact-dependencies.json exposes an empty object:

$ cat elm-stuff/exact-dependencies.json
{}%      

This started happening this morning after strange failures on Travis for the tooty project, where the test env couldn't be installed at all. I reduced the problem to the setup exposed above, which fails both on my machine and Travis.

I don't have a clue what triggered this behavior change, I didn't install anything new, yesterday everything was fine. Very, very strange.

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[n1k0]

FWIW package.elm-lang.org is currently down http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://package.elm-lang.org

[renatomassaro]

I think I've hit the same issue, and the package server is up.

To replicate:

{
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "summary": "Sample Elm Test",
    "repository": "https://github.com/user/project.git",
    "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
    "source-directories": [
        "."
    ],
    "exposed-modules": [],
    "dependencies": {
        "elm-community/elm-test": "4.0.0 <= v < 5.0.0",
        "rtfeldman/node-test-runner": "4.0.0 <= v < 5.0.0"
    },
    "elm-version": "0.18.0 <= v < 0.19.0"
}

does not install anything but says it was successful, while just changing the versions

    "dependencies": {
        "elm-community/elm-test": "3.0.0 <= v < 4.0.0",
        "rtfeldman/node-test-runner": "3.0.0 <= v < 4.0.0"
    },

will return a valid upgrade plan. Weird.

[tdrach]

I'm seeing the same issues as above. Run: elm package install and see Packages configured successfully! as a response, but then see an empty packages directory. elm-package.json shown below:

{
    "version": "0.5.0",
    "summary": "XX",
    "repository": "XX",
    "license": "BSD3",
    "source-directories": [
        "./src"
    ],
    "exposed-modules": [],
    "dependencies": {
        "elm-lang/core": "5.1.1 <= v < 6.0.0",
        "elm-lang/html": "2.0.0 <= v < 3.0.0",
        "elm-lang/http": "3.0.1 <= v < 4.0.0",
        "simonh1000/elm-jwt": "5.2.1 <= v < 6.0.0"
    },
    "elm-version": "0.18.0 <= v < 0.18.1"
}

[ringvold]

I'm experiencing the same issue, but only on windows it seems. I do not have the same problem on OSX.

[ringvold]

Sooo...I got it working by deleting the tests folder and reinitializing with elm-test init. 🤔

[effervescentia]

I found that it seems to happen while there is an exact-dependencies.json file in the elm-stuff folder, removing it caused the install to prompt me for install again
I had previously been committing it to git to preserve the resolved versions exactly, I suppose I will be removing it now though in order to allow for CI's to build my project