[email protected]: Chokidar 2 does not receive security updates since 2019. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x fewer dependencies

[KarelWintersky]

Gulp Copy uses chokidar 2, please update

[klaascuvelier]

Hi @KarelWintersky thanks for reporting this. I was not really planning on doing anymore updates to this package.
Can you maybe share a bit of your gulp setup to see if there's an option just not to use this package anymore?

[KarelWintersky]

smth like

gulp.task('images', function () {
    return gulp
        .src(configuration.paths.images.src)
        .pipe(copy(configuration.paths.images.dest, {
            prefix: 1
        }))
        ;
});

why not only

gulp.task('images', function () {
    return gulp
        .src(configuration.paths.images.src, { encoding: false })
        .pipe(gulp.dest(configuration.paths.images.dest))
        ;
});

A problem:

In new gulp encoding: false is REQUIRED. Because this setting in the latest version of Gulp is strictly necessary - but why and why - it turned out quite by accident, after a long thoughtful search for an error (why, after copying an image using standard tools, it is not shown and has become one and a half times larger, and why does this only apply to binary files?)

But if you don't plan to support the project anymore, I think there will be nothing wrong if I fork it, fix what I need and release a new version on the NPMJS package repository and download the necessary package for myself.

[klaascuvelier]

I just bumped dependencies and added support for Gulp 5 through PR #56
This should also have bumped chokidar and resolved your issues I guess?