[BUG] Fix introduced in #60 breaks backwards compatibility with old node.js versions

[pniewiejski]

What / Why

Changes introduced in #60 (specifically in commit: f2cdfcf) break compatibility for older versions of node.js which do not support const & let variable declarations. 

Notice that in v2.8.7, apart from one place in tests, it is the only place where const (or let for that matter) is used in the whole project.

So before #60 this project was backwards compatible and after #60 it is not. I think this should be considered a breaking change.

This fix (#60) was introduced between v2.8.6 and v2.8.7. Introducing breaking changes and bumping only the patch number is IMHO a practice that should be avoided.

Where / affected versions

Affected version is v2.8.7.
node.js version: 0.10.* (Yes, it's still there... 😢)

Expected outcome

Change const declaration to var.

// index.js +123
const authmatch = giturl.match(/[^@]+@[^:/]+/)

[ljharb]

This is breaking me as well for a number of packages https://travis-ci.com/inspect-js/has-template-literals/jobs/292483820

v2 can't use const or let, in order to maintain compatibility. Can v2.8.7 be reverted, or updated to only use var?

[darcyclarke]

@ljharb @pniewiejski we'll revert this to use var & ship a patch either before or on this next Tuesday

[ljharb]

Thanks! It’d be great to do it sooner, since all my packages’ CI is failing in the meantime unless i add a commit pegging the version of hosted-git-info. Perhaps you could make “latest” be 2.8.6 right now, so that people don’t have to get 2.8.7 unless they ask for it?

[darcyclarke]

This should be fixed by #66 which was landed in hosted-git-info@2.8.8. We'll try to roll out a cli update as soon as possible which will include this dep update (likely as npm@6.14.2)