package.json not compatible with npm 0.3.0+

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package.json not compatible with npm 0.3.0+

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The following error is from npm 0.3.12 on node 0.4.1

npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! JSON.parse Note that package.json must be actual JSON, not
npm ERR! JSON.parse just a JavaScript object.
npm ERR! JSON.parse
npm ERR! JSON.parse This changed in npm 0.3.0, and is not a bug in npm.
npm ERR! JSON.parse Tell the package author to fix their package.json file.
npm ERR! JSON.parse
npm ERR! System Darwin 10.5.0
npm ERR! argv { remain: [ 'sinon-nodeunit' ],
npm ERR! argv cooked: [ 'install', 'sinon-nodeunit' ],
npm ERR! argv original: [ 'install', 'sinon-nodeunit' ] }

Christian Johansen · Answer 1 · Fri Mar 04 2011 18:07:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hmm, I recently fixed this error: sinonjs/sinon@fb7233c

What version of Sinon where you trying to install?

Deleted user · Answer 2 · Fri Mar 04 2011 22:29:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I had installed nodeunit 0.5.0 and sinon 1.0.2 separately with
npm install nodeunit
npm install sinon

then the following failed, attempting to load sinon-nodeunit@0.1.1
npm install sinon-nodeunit

I notice an extra comma in package.json after "url" in "licenses"
That's probably it.

Christian Johansen · Answer 3 · Fri Mar 04 2011 23:25:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sorry, I missed the fact that we were talking about sinon-nodeunit and not sinon... Just pulled a fix for it and pushed 0.1.2 to npm.