[CB-9147] Adding a platform with a caret version adds the very latest rather than the latest matching version

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.0
• Component/s: cordova-lib
• Assignee: Tim Barham
• Reporter: Tim Barham
• Created: 09/Jun/15 21:11
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:50
• Resolved: 29/Jun/15 17:36

Description

If you add, say, windows 3.5.0 platform to a project with the save flag:

cordova platform add windows@3.5.0 --save

We write out ^3.5.0 to config.xml.

If the platform is removed then re-added, we install 4.0.0 instead of the expected 3.8.2.

This is because internally we are using a version of npm that doesn't understand caret versions.