Bower install not working

[ayushgupta29]

Installing dropzone package with bower package manager is failing. i.e there is no dist folder after installing the package.
This started from today. I am guessing that this occurred due to the Master -> Main rename.

Is there a way to fix this quickly?

[ayushgupta29]

@enyo

[enyo]

Mh that is strange. Isn't bower working with npm packages? Are you using the latest version?

[pich]

I can confirm this issue.
Affected versions are 5.7.4 and 5.7.5.

A temporary solution is to update bower.json:
"dropzone": "5.5.0 <= 5.7.3"

[DushyanthaHerath]

Version 5.5.1 also affected. Any solution?

[enyo]

I'm going to fix this in the next few hours

[enyo]

Solution / Workaround:

Install dropzone with this command instead: bower install dropzone/dropzone-bower

You'll then need to adapt the links to dropzone to use bower_components/dropzone-bower/dist/* if you're referencing them directly.

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Breakdown:

I thought that bower was using npm as well, but I was mistaken. Since I have removed the dist/ files from the repo (because they don't belong here) I created a separate repo where the dist files are pushed when there is a new release. Since bower has been deprecated, I will remove this repo in a few years, but for now, I'll maintain it.

I can go back and create tags for the older versions too if somebody needs a specific version, but other than that, please simply switch to the installation method I described above and upgrade to the latest version.

[alexantr]

IMHO it was a very bad decision to remove bower in patch release. You could tolerate bower until v6.0.

[enyo]

@alexantr I didn't do it on purpose. I switched deployment systems, and there were a few major issues with legacy support with the library which is why I wanted to push a new patch release to address them. I hadn't counted on this issue to occur at the same time.

In retrospect I should simply have pushed a major release, but I'm sure that that would have affected a lot of users as well.

I have described a workaround for bower to get it to work again.