Node version requirement of v12 is a bit too high

[kenotron]

Hello! We have a repo that would like to use cpupro which uses this package. However, the engine version requirement has stopped our adoption (Microsoft Teams). Is there any chance to bump DOWN the requirement to somewhere lower? We currently have node 12.14.1...

[lahmatiy]

That's a little bit tricky. Since clap is dual package (with support for ESM & CJS), there is important a stable support for ESM & exports field in package.json in Node.js. This support was stabilised in 12.20, 14.13.0 и 15.0.0 versions according to my experiments and investigations. So that's not possible to bump down requirements with no changing structure of the package.

Node.js 12.14 is pretty old. I believe you should force the bumping of version at least up to 12.22, better to 14 or 16, because the end of life for Node.js 12 is at the end of April 2022.