Replacing deprecated request for NPM install

Author: imcotton

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Bugfixes:
 
 Other improvements:
 - CI: Add sha256 checksum generation on the release workflow (#816)
+- Replacing deprecated `request` by `make-fetch-happen` for NPM installation (#840)
 
 ## [0.20.3] - 2021-05-12
 

npm/install.js

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 "use strict";
 
-const request = require("request");
+const fetch = require("make-fetch-happen");
 const tar = require("tar");
 const version = "PACKAGE_VERSION";
 const platform = { win32: "Windows", darwin: "macOS" }[process.platform] || "Linux";
 const url = `https://github.com/purescript/spago/releases/download/${version}/${platform}.tar.gz`
 
-request.get(url).pipe(tar.x({"C": './'}));
+fetch(url).then(res => res.body.pipe(tar.x({"C": './'})));

npm/package.json

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
     "spago": "./spago"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "request": "^2.88.0",
-    "tar": "^4.4.8"
+    "make-fetch-happen": "^9.1.0",
+    "tar": "^6.1.11"
   },
   "keywords": [
     "purescript",