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Is it stupid to still use v0.12 ? Last time I've checked I've had compatibility issues with all new (now old) io.js versions.

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It might be worth trying to get to 4.2.0, which was the first LTS [1] release (due to the change in versioning, that's only six months older than 4.2.0).

1: https://nodesource.com/blog/essential-steps-long-term-suppor...

thanks, also thanks for the other comments. I will retry with LTS in future and do some more testing.

What sort of compatibility issues? Most packages update to work with new Node releases fairly quickly. Usually the packages that have compatibility issues are ones with native C++ bindings. If you `npm rm` the package and reinstall it, it will usually build correctly for the latest Node/V8 release.

Further, if you have a project that for whatever reason is not feasible to update to run on modern Current Node, you can use `nvm` or `n` to choose which Node release you want to use: i.e. `nvm exec 0.12 node old-project.js` and `nvm exec 6.0 node fresh-project.js`. v6 (and the versions that preceded it) has made Javascript really enjoyable to write.

Our biggest issue is to get off node 0.12, we need to get off protractor 2, and some of our protractor tests fail on protractor 3 for reasons no one has yet figured out. The only clue is a note saying selenium webdriver 2.48 changed how its control flow worked, but nowhere is what changed from 2.47 to 2.48 documented.

You can't diff between 2.47 and 2.48 and see what changed? Or is that a binary part you don't have source access to?

"Showing 930 changed files with 13,029 additions and 10,187 deletions. "

Feel free to try: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/compare/selenium-2.47...

It's a dependency of a dependency with multiple language versions in the one repository.

thanks, I will look deeper into it. I could not install certain packages even with a fresh and clean new node.js. NVM is not the issue (I know node version handlers like nvm or tj/n). I just wondered if I'm the only one who had this compatibility issues.

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