install fails with node v4.x

[jldec]

try to install with node v4

pub-server npm install will show errors building socket.io like the following:

> [email protected] install /Users/hello/pub/server/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/engine.io/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil
> node-gyp rebuild

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o
In file included from ../src/bufferutil.cc:16:
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:261:25: error: redefinition of '_NanEnsureLocal'

[jldec]

implemented temporary fix in pub-server v1.8.5 - expect permanent fix to land soon.
see socketio/socket.io#2213

[tjwebb]

For projects like sails.js which rely on socket.io as a dependency of the framework, we can't exactly resort to temporary hackery as easily as some applications can. We're very interested in seeing a fix published to npm soon.

[jldec]

pub-server depends on socket.io. I didn't want pub-server users to have to fiddle with lower-level package.json entries when they install it, so i created a temporary workaround which allows them to install a working system under node v4. I decided that this was preferable to restricting all users to an earlier node version.

I have no connection with automattic, but i shared the workaround with the socket.io community, expecting that other package owners may want to do something similar.

I noticed that @rauchg was also active today on socket.io sub-projects.

[jldec]

just checked npm:
engine.io and engine.io-client have been updated to use ws 0.8 (which compiles on node v4)
but socket.io has not yet been updated on npm
so this temporary workaround is still required.
see socketio/socket.io#2213
j.

~$ npm info socket.io version dependencies 
version = '1.3.6'
dependencies =  
{ 'engine.io': '1.5.2',
  'socket.io-parser': '2.2.4',
  'socket.io-client': '1.3.6',
  'socket.io-adapter': '0.3.1',
  'has-binary-data': '0.1.3',
  debug: '2.1.0' }

~$ npm info engine.io version dependencies 
version = '1.5.4'
dependencies =  
{ base64id: '0.1.0',
  debug: '1.0.3',
  'engine.io-parser': '1.2.2',
  ws: '0.8.0' }

~$ npm info socket.io-client version dependencies 
version = '1.3.6'
dependencies =  
{ debug: '0.7.4',
  'engine.io-client': '1.5.2',
  'component-bind': '1.0.0',
  'component-emitter': '1.1.2',
  'object-component': '0.0.3',
  'socket.io-parser': '2.2.4',
  'has-binary': '0.1.6',
  indexof: '0.0.1',
  parseuri: '0.0.2',
  'to-array': '0.1.3',
  backo2: '1.0.2' }

~$ npm info engine.io-client version dependencies 
version = '1.5.4'
dependencies =  
{ 'component-emitter': '1.1.2',
  'component-inherit': '0.0.3',
  debug: '1.0.4',
  'engine.io-parser': '1.2.2',
  'has-cors': '1.0.3',
  indexof: '0.0.1',
  parsejson: '0.0.1',
  parseqs: '0.0.2',
  parseuri: '0.0.4',
  ws: '0.8.0',
  xmlhttprequest: 'https://github.com/rase-/node-XMLHttpRequest/archive/a6b6f2.tar.gz' }

[ChALkeR]

Adding to the list: nodejs/node#2798.

[jldec]

fixed with socket.io v1.3.7