graceful-fs@2 and @3 support will be removed soon

[ChALkeR]

Hi. ibm_db is currently #64 in my list of modules that would likely to be broken when nodejs/node#6413 lands (which is anticipated to happen before v7.0).

Note that graceful-fs@1 and graceful-fs@4 are ok and would not be broken by this, but a require() on graceful-fs@2 or graceful-fs@3 would cause an error soon.

That is, runtime warning fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported. would be turned into a throw.

If you or your deps use graceful-fs@2 or graceful-fs@3 in runtime — you are affected.

Tracking: nodejs/node#5213.

[bimalkjha]

@ChALkeR ibm_db is not using graceful-fs@3 directly. It is the unzip package which is using graceful-fs@3.

/Users/bimaljha/nodework/installs> npm ls graceful-fs
/Users/bimaljha/nodework/installs
└─┬ [email protected]
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └── [email protected]
└─┬ [email protected]
└─┬ [email protected]
└── [email protected]

Seems, no one is maintaining this unzip package as it is 2 years old. ibm_db is using unzip.Parse() to unzip the .zip file on ntx64 platform only. Do you know any good alternative of unzip that ibm_db can use to unzip a .zip file on ntx64? Thanks.

[ChALkeR]

@bimaljha I have not used them (or even checked them), but other popular alternatives are unzip2 (which is also affected, see glebdmitriew/node-unzip-2#13 and has last release two years ago) and yauzl (which seems to be fine).

I can't recommend them because I haven't used them, though.

[bimalkjha]

@ChALkeR Thanks for the info. I'll try to use yauzl instead of unzip.

[rhtpandeyIN]

Unzip has been removed from ibm_db module, replaced with node-unzipper.