util.getSystemErrorName not available before Node v9.7.0

[luca-aurelia]

Hi folks,

Thanks for all the time and hard work you put into this package. I know open source is often thankless, so I want to take a second to say that I really appreciate what you do 😄

Okay, bug report time ‒ while running execa on Node v8.11.1, I ran into this error:

TypeError: util.getSystemErrorName is not a function

I did a little research and I think this is what's happening:

In error.js, you make a call to util.getSystemErrorName. According to the Node docs, this function wasn't added until Node v9.7.0, but the engines field in your package.json specifies any Node version >= 8.

Hope this is clear! Let me know if I can provide more details or help with anything else.

Cheers,
Thomas

[ehmicky]

Hi Thomas, thanks for reaching out! Thanks for the kind words as well!

We support >=8.12.0. util.getSystemErrorName() was backported to 8.12.0.

See here on the discussion related to the engines field, and let me know what you think.

[luca-aurelia]

Okay, perfect. I figured there was something I was missing. (And thanks for the lightning fast response 😂)

Is it worth updating the engines field to indicate that only 8.12 and up are supported?

[ehmicky]

I think so (PR at #319) but I am not sure how @sindresorhus feels about this.