Issue with prereleases coming from nuget.semanticversion

[maxkorp]

So we're trying to build prerelease versions with names like 3.2.1-RC4, but nuget semver is throwing weird errors where it strips out most of the version number.

Running "create-windows-installer:latest" (create-windows-installer) task
>> System.ArgumentException: '4' is not a valid version string.
>> Parameter name: version
>>    at NuGet.SemanticVersion.Parse(String version)
>>    at Squirrel.VersionExtensions.ToSemanticVersion(String fileName)
>>    at Squirrel.ReleaseEntry.<WriteReleaseFile>b__6(ReleaseEntry x)
>>    at System.Linq.EnumerableSorter`2.ComputeKeys(TElement[] elements, Int32 count)
>>    at System.Linq.EnumerableSorter`1.Sort(TElement[] elements, Int32 count)
>>    at System.Linq.OrderedEnumerable`1.<GetEnumerator>d__0.MoveNext()
>>    at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2.MoveNext()
>>    at System.String.Join(String separator, IEnumerable`1 values)
>>    at Squirrel.ReleaseEntry.WriteReleaseFile(IEnumerable`1 releaseEntries, Stream stream)
>>    at Squirrel.ReleaseEntry.WriteReleaseFile(IEnumerable`1 releaseEntries, String path)
>>    at Squirrel.Update.Program.Releasify(String package, String targetDir, String packagesDir, String bootstrapperExe, String backgroundGif, String signingOpts, String baseUrl, String setupIcon, Boolean generateMsi)
>>    at Squirrel.Update.Program.executeCommandLine(String[] args)
>>    at Squirrel.Update.Program.main(String[] args)
>>    at Squirrel.Update.Program.Main(String[] args)
Warning: Command failed: C:\projects\GitKraken\build\node_modules\grunt-electron-installer\vendor\Update.com --releasify C:\Users\appveyor\AppData\Local\Temp\1\si1151024-2184-1gv97u2\gitkraken.3.2.1-RC4.nupkg --releaseDir C:
\projects\GitKraken\dist --loadingGif C:\projects\GitKraken\resources\win\installerImage.gif --signWithParams /a /f "C:\projects\GitKraken\vendor\windows_codesigning_cert.pfx" /p "asdf"
System.ArgumentException: '4' is not a valid version string.
Parameter name: version
   at NuGet.SemanticVersion.Parse(String version)
   at Squirrel.VersionExtensions.ToSemanticVersion(String fileName)
   at Squirrel.ReleaseEntry.<WriteReleaseFile>b__6(ReleaseEntry x)
   at System.Linq.EnumerableSorter`2.ComputeKeys(TElement[] elements, Int32 count)
   at System.Linq.EnumerableSorter`1.Sort(TElement[] elements, Int32 count)
   at System.Linq.OrderedEnumerable`1.<GetEnumerator>d__0.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2.MoveNext()
   at System.String.Join(String separator, IEnumerable`1 values)
   at Squirrel.ReleaseEntry.WriteReleaseFile(IEnumerable`1 releaseEntries, Stream stream)
   at Squirrel.ReleaseEntry.WriteReleaseFile(IEnumerable`1 releaseEntries, String path)
   at Squirrel.Update.Program.Releasify(String package, String targetDir, String packagesDir, String bootstrapperExe, String backgroundGif, String signingOpts, String baseUrl, String setupIcon, Boolean generateMsi)
   at Squirrel.Update.Program.executeCommandLine(String[] args)
   at Squirrel.Update.Program.main(String[] args)
   at Squirrel.Update.Program.Main(String[] args)
Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

Now, in nuget's semver specs it says soemthing like 3.2.1-RC.4 is not allowed, but something without the period in the component after the - is. This module is even splitting on that -, and removing all of the periods in the tailing component of the version to match that. It appears however that they're somehow stripping down everything before the -, and then their semver parse is stripping off the text before numbers. Is this a known issue (with nuget, squirrel, grunt-electron-installer, or commonly in end-user code)?

[anaisbetts]

This feature was only very recently added, are you using the latest version of erry'thing?

[maxkorp]

grunt-electron-installer at 1.1.0, yeah.

[maxkorp]

So, at what point were prereleases added to nuget? It looks like the nuget in squirrel.windows hasn't really been tied to the core since may? (Forked by Haacked then, and paul has 3 new commits since then locally).

Edit: For the time being, I was able to replace the version I passed to the grunt config for the task with one replacing -RC with 000, so 3.2.1-RC4 becomes 3.2.10004. Since we keep our prereleases in a separate folder entirely, thats enough to get it working short term. Still not ideal, but it works.

[anaisbetts]

Prereleases in NuGet have been there forever, but we recently enabled them in Squirrel.Windows (previously Squirrel used the prerelease tag for its own purposes). Atom is using the -betaN tag and we've done it as well, it's surprising that -RC doesn't work. Can you try with -beta just for funsies?

[maxkorp]

Sure thang 👍

[maxkorp]

That worked O.o

[anaisbetts]

I think the word beta has special meaning to NuGet :-/

[maxkorp]

Well, their docs specify that pretty much whatever should be ok there. I'll play with it more, see if maybe capitalization has a role? All of their examples are lower case, now that I think of it.

[DanSantimore]

For what it's worth, I think the semanticversion.parse() regex in the nuget version being used by squirrel must be wrong, because it seems to fail whenever I use upper case. E.g., 1.0.0-QA41 fails, but 1.0.0-qa41 succeeds.