Update Node.js minimum required version.

[shisama]

According to package.json, this package seems to support Node.js v8.

readdirp/package.json

Line 21 in d9c7213

"node": ">=8.10.0"

However, Node.js v8 has already been end-of-life on Dec 31, 2019.

https://github.com/nodejs/Release

If it is Node.js v10.13, fs.promises can be used. It is available to use fs.Dirent too, which is faster than fs.stat to check whether an entry is a file or a directory.

Another idea is that the minimum required version will be Node.js v12 for #105 .
Node.js v12 has already been LTS.

If minimum required Node.js version is updated, it will be a breaking change.

Are you planning to update Node.js minimum required version?

[paulmillr]

Have you checked the actual readdirp code? We are using Dirent already. And we are using bigint inodes for win32, which are only available on node 10+.

We fallback to old methods for v8. Readdirp 3 was released one year ago, and so far we haven’t even switched half of users to it. The reason being: the packages support even older nodes, like v6. It’s a very lengthy task, and bumping min req to node10 won’t help much here.

[shisama]

Thank you for your reply. I did not know this has already used Dirent. I should have read code more carefully.
I understood what you wrote. So I will close this issue.
Thank you for your great works.

[paulmillr]

Cheers.