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Error for invalid min runtime version in a plugin is misleading #3987

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@DimitarTodorov

Environment
Provide version numbers for the following components (information can be retrieved by running tns info in your project folder or by inspecting the package.json of the project):

  • CLI: 5.0.0-2018-10-08-12406

Describe the bug
When installing a plugin with wrong min runtime version (e.g. "next") the error that is thrown while building the app is misleading.

To Reproduce

  1. Clone the nativescript-ui-listview plugin repo
  2. Change the nativescript-android and ios versions in src/package.json file to next
  3. Pack the plugin with sh pack.sh
  4. Add the plugin to one of the demos (e.g. cd demo-angular && tns plugin add ../publish/package/*.tgz)
  5. Execute tns run android
Preparing project...
Executing before-prepareJSApp hook from /Users/dtodorov/SSD/nativescript-ui-listview/demo-angular/hooks/before-prepareJSApp/nativescript-dev-webpack.js
Successfully prepared plugin nativescript-angular for android.
Successfully prepared plugin nativescript-fresco for android.
Successfully prepared plugin nativescript-theme-core for android.
Unable to apply changes on device: emulator-5554. Error is: Processing node_modules failed. TypeError: Invalid Version: next.
Building project...
Gradle build...
Project evaluation failed including an error in afterEvaluate {}. Run with --stacktrace for details of the afterEvaluate {} error.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/dtodorov/SSD/nativescript-ui-listview/demo-angular/platforms/android/app/build.gradle' line: 65

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
>
  'dependencies.json' file not found. Check whether the NativeScript CLI has prepared the project beforehand,
  and that your NativeScript version is 3.3, or a more recent one. To build an android project with the current
  version of the {N} CLI install a previous version of the runtime package - 'tns platform add [email protected]'.


* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 0s
Unable to apply changes on device: 01a5bd7074a39516. Error is: Command ./gradlew failed with exit code 1.

Expected behavior
The error should point what exactly is the issue, which are supported formats and shouldn't proceed with build.

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