I'm having trouble registering my bower.json file at Bower. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
When I try to register my project at Bower using
bower register jsnlog git://github.com/mperdeck/jsnlog.js.git -V
I get the error message:
bower jsnlog#* EMALFORMED Failed to read C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Local\Temp\mperdeck-PC-mperdeck\bower\js
nlog-6944-x00dtF\bower.json
Additional error details:
Unexpected token ?
The contents of my bower.json is simply (I got rid of spaces and newlines in an attempt to solve the problem):
{"name":"jsnlog.js","main":"jsnlog.js","version":"2.4.3"}
(note that there are no ? in that file)
And here are the details that appear on the screen when I run bower register:
PS D:\dev\jsnlog\jsnlog.js> bower register jsnlog git://github.com/mperdeck/jsnlog.js.git -V
bower jsnlog#* resolve git://github.com/mperdeck/jsnlog.js.git#*
bower jsnlog#* download https://github.com/mperdeck/jsnlog.js/archive/2.4.3.tar.gz
bower jsnlog#* extract archive.tar.gz
bower jsnlog#* EMALFORMED Failed to read C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Local\Temp\mperdeck-PC-mperdeck\bower\js
nlog-6944-x00dtF\bower.json
Additional error details:
Unexpected token ?
Stack trace:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ?
at Object.parse (native)
at C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\bower-json\lib\json.js:41:29
at fs.js:266:14
at C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:105:5
at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
Console trace:
Trace
at StandardRenderer.error (C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\lib\renderers\StandardRenderer.j
s:74:17)
at Logger.updateNotifier.packageName (C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\bin\bower:109:18)
at Logger.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at Logger.emit (C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\bower-logger\lib\Logger.js:29:
39)
at C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\lib\commands\register.js:86:20
at _rejected (C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\q\q.js:808:24)
at C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\q\q.js:834:30
at Promise.when (C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\q\q.js:1079:31)
at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\q\q.js:752
:41)
at C:\Users\mperdeck\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\node_modules\q\q.js:574:44
System info:
Bower version: 1.2.8
Node version: 0.10.26
OS: Windows_NT 6.1.7601 x64