Why isn't 0.18 installable from the npm registry?

[zeke]

0.18 is among the versions published to the npm registry:

❯ npm show yarn versions
 
[ '0.1.0',
  '0.1.1',
  '0.1.2',
  '0.1.3',
  '0.15.1',
  '0.16.0',
  '0.16.1',
  '0.17.0',
  '0.17.2',
  '0.17.3',
  '0.17.4',
  '0.17.5',
  '0.17.6',
  '0.17.7',
  '0.17.8',
  '0.17.9',
  '0.17.10',
  '0.18.0' ]

but npm installs an older version with a deprecation warning:

❯ npm i -g yarn
npm http request GET https://registry.npmjs.org/yarn
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/yarn
npm WARN deprecated yarn@0.17.10: It is recommended to install Yarn using the native installation method for your environment. See https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install

I assume this means npm installing the yarn CLI will no longer be supported. Is that a correct assumption?

[newoga]

@zeke 0.18.0 is a pre-release. npm install will install the version specified at the latest tag which currently is 0.17.10. I'm sure once 0.18.0 is stable they'll update the latest tag to 0.18.0.

$ npm dist-tag ls yarn
latest: 0.17.10
rc: 0.18.0

[Daniel15]

Yes, @newoga is right! 0.18.0 is essentially a release candidate. If using npm, you can use npm install -g yarn@rc to get 0.18.0. We do need to do a much better job of handling RCs - That'll be covered by #2161.

I'm going to close this issue since your question was answered. Thanks for trying Yarn! 😃

[zeke]

npm install -g yarn@rc did the trick. Thanks.