`bower install` fails to parse json. about responsive-nav.js

[rosstimson]

After a little more reading up it looks like Bower needs the change and then the version bumped / tagged in Git.

I'll not fork and send a PR for such a tiny change unless you'd prefer me to.

[philwareham]

Shouldn't the name be "responsive-nav" instead of "responsive-js" - that's the name the package is registered with in the Bower registry?

[rosstimson]

Doh, well spotted. Unfortunately I think I just typed that up by hand (cut 'n' paste from rxvt was get mangled) so it is just a typo rather than the real issue.

Just tried a new test as it was a while since I was trying this, still the same result:

$ bower install responsive-nav -save
bower cloning git://github.com/viljamis/responsive-nav.js.git
bower caching git://github.com/viljamis/responsive-nav.js.git
bower fetching responsive-nav
bower checking out responsive-nav#1.0.14
bower error Failed to parse json
Unexpected token ]

There were errors, here's a summary of them:
- responsive-nav Failed to parse json
Unexpected token ]
An error was caught when reading the bower.json: Failed to parse json
Unexpected token ]

[philwareham]

The name is incorrect in the repo bower.json file, not just your example. I can't see any other problem with the file apart from that. I can't get the package to install via bower and I assume it's because of that name error (the bower registry expects a name of "responsive-nav").

[rosstimson]

Cool, I see you fixed this in a PR. I still suspect that a new version needs to be tagged in Git for Bower to install (currently gives same error) but I'll close this issue as the crux of the issue is fixed.

[arielsalminen]

I’ll add a new tag once back at the office! :)