Dependency version care in _bower.json

[delight]

• adjusts bower.json to allways depend on the latest stable 1.2.x release of angular
• bumps version of bootstrap to match with the version of bootstrap-sass-official

[DaftMonk]

With the new bower version this works great, however for anyone using an older version of bower, it will incorrectly fetch the latest snapshots.

What do you think would be the best way to deal with that? We could add a peerDependency on bower 1.3, or should we just tell people to update their bower?

[delight]

To be honest I think ppl in JS world have "versionitis" therefor they are always looking for the latest and greatest. So the danger that ppl would use an old version of bower should be pretty minor.

Avoiding pitfalls and keeping barriers low is always a good design. A peerDependency sounds pretty solid - but a note about npm -g update bower should be adequate. At the end we are talking about developers.

So IMO its better to teach the people about maintaining the requirements versus having it simply work and let people wonder why that is.

On the other hand I don't know how many devs know to use there tools ? npm -g outdated etc. ?