Publish and maintain a release

Publish a version

Sign in once, check the package, pin its dependencies, then push:

$ datumhue login
$ datumhue pkg check ballpit
$ datumhue pkg update ballpit
$ datumhue pkg push ballpit --dry-run
$ datumhue pkg push ballpit

• datumhue login opens the sign-in page in your browser. Your sign-in must own the package's scope, the @scope of its name. datumhue logout signs you out again.
• pkg check reads the manifest and the layout, and checks the license a free package must declare (Package licenses).
• pkg update writes package.lock.kdl, which pins every dependency (Depend on another package).
• pkg push --dry-run builds the package and stops before sending it. pkg push then publishes exactly what the lock pins, and fails if a pinned dependency has been yanked since.

--namespace names the registry namespace to publish to. Without it, pkg push uses the default its --namespace entry names. Related packages publish together from their workspace (Work on several packages together).

Release a new version

A published version is never overwritten. To change a release, raise version in the manifest and push again. People who depend on your package move to the new version when their range takes it and they run datumhue pkg update; datumhue pkg outdated shows them it is there.

In a build script, datumhue pkg update --dry-run exits with code 3 when the lock file would change, so a stale lock can fail the build.

Retire a version

Yank a version that should no longer be installed:

$ datumhue pkg dependents @alice/ball-pit
$ datumhue pkg yank @alice/ball-pit 1.2.0 --reason "crashes on start"

• pkg dependents lists the published packages, in every namespace of the deployment, that depend on yours, so you know who a yank reaches before you make it.
• A yanked version drops out of new resolutions and catalog listings, and pkg update moves dependents off it. Installs already pinned to it keep working, and nothing is deleted.
• --reason is shown wherever the version is skipped.
• datumhue pkg yank @alice/ball-pit 1.2.0 --undo lists it again.

See also

• Work on several packages together
• Packages and identity
• Sell a package