Why doesn't gulp spritesmith work in gulp4?

Question

Sprites

For unknown reasons, gulp.spritesmith does not work in gulp 4... Gives this

SOMEPATH\html-markup\node_modules\pixelsmith\lib\engine.js:40
          file.pipe(concat(function handleFileBuffer (buff) {
               ^
TypeError: file.pipe is not a function
    at loadPixels (SOMEPATH\html-markup\node_modules\pixelsmith\lib\engine.js:40:16)
    at fn (SOMEPATH\html-markup\node_modules\pixelsmith\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:638:34)
    at Immediate.<anonymous> (SOMEPATH\html-markup\node_modules\pixelsmith\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:554:34)
    at runCallback (timers.js:672:20)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:645:5)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:617:5)

Task with return and everything should be ok

Answer 1

In general, the method below helped me personally, I share it.
As it was before:
1. I have a blank for new projects on gulp4. I cloned it on my computer (git clone ...)
2. Installed packages (npm install)
3. Launched the project (gulp default)
And everything worked fine. Then at the third stage, the above error appeared. How I got rid of it:
1. I clone the blank on my computer (git clone ...)
2. I change the line "gulp": "github:gulpjs/gulp#4.0" in package.json to "gulp": "^4.0. 0"
3. Delete package-lock.json file
4. Install packages (npm install)
5. Run project (gulp default), everything works.
After that, I pushed the changes, and now the error does not crash. As I understand it, the error is somehow related to the official release of gulp version 4.0.0.