I wonder if nodist can update nodist? I have 0.7.2, it can't update npm
so now I'm wondering what is a best way to update nodist itself
(mistake, I have 0.7.1)
oh darn it, this worked:
"npm install npm -g"
Jari Pennanen
@Ciantic
though, can't still update nodist easily, but it's probably not required anymore
one package manager to rule them all, I wish this worked "npm install nodist -g"
to update nodist
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
Does anybody have some free time + a windows machine at hand and would like to build and test the upcoming 0.8.x features?
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
@Ciantic nodist currently can't update itself :) I'm looking for a maintainer for the chocolatey package, though. Would that interest you?
Bryan Tong
@nullivex
@Ciantic it is difficult to update nodist that way since it cannot live as a portable app and get Windows to act correctly. The desired upgrade path should be re-running the nodist installer. That is something that could use some more testing.
@marcelklehr I am going to do some more testing this week. Been a never ending river of busy lately.
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
That would be great! I still don't have a suitable windows machine at hand. master has everything that is staged for 0.8.0 right now.
Bryan Tong
@nullivex
Okay, I will test from there and make PRs as I need to fix stuff. I have an RDP we can test on.
Jari Pennanen
@Ciantic
not a maintainer type of a guy, sorry. Good work nontheless, even if you are not maintaining it anymore (since you have no Windows at hand anymore I gather)
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
I never thought I'd be happy to have a windows machine again :)
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
Alright, I resurrected my old windows machine -- it runs in virtualbox on my linux system now, this time I'm Admin, so I can test the installer properly.
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
I feel like I've abused the tag "release candidate", but heck, going back to beta now seems even worse, so here is nodist v0.8.0-rc4:
The installer works on x86, too, now
x64 auto-detection on install should work (not tested yet, though)
fixed build script to account for unzip madness
Bryan Tong
@nullivex
Did they push a new node-progress yet
I have a PR pending that adds the rate to the progress bar. They are supposed to be releasing a new version in a couple of days.
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
Ah, great!
Bryan Tong
@nullivex
hi
is anyone here?
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
yup.
Bryan Tong
@nullivex
Hello
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
hey!
how's things?
Bryan Tong
@nullivex
great, i have been super happy with how much nodist has grown!
not to mention when i had to install it on a couple computers in the last couple months, its been a breeze
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
that's nice to hear :) When you get mostly bug reports you start to forget how much actually works... :)
(Still, the main big issues atm are signals being lost by the shim and having to reinstall native global modules when changing major node versions)
Also, I'm participating in the discussion group initiated by the node foundation about efforts for an "official" node version manager...
Bryan Tong
@nullivex
Yea i read that, and was happy they included the project. I think a lot of the ways you handle things are superior aside from the shim having some issues.
However, I feel like those issues are coming to surface because there is more and more widespread use. That blog post I put together using it gets a lot of traffic as well.
benjamin Sweetnam
@ben_s247_twitter
Your not the only one that has an issue with the globals anyway for the most part it work brilliantly what do people recommend for Mac it must be able to auto switch between setup folders and global env.
Brian Thompson
@brianrt
Hello, is it possible to use nodist from the Github source?
Prasanth Shenoy
@pachumon
Hi anyone here
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
hey there!
sorry, gitter email notifications were broken for some time...
@brianrt I think so, yes. There's no guide for installation, though.
Bryan Tong
@nullivex
Hello, Just checking in!
@marcelklehr Contact me if you can!
Bryan Tong
@nullivex
Hello Everyone, I wanted to announce that Nullivex Software Consortium (NSC) will be maintaining Nodist. We will be merging pull requests and building a roadmap over the next 2 months working towards a 1.0 release. Happy coding!
Patrick Tierney
@Pattrick_gitlab
hello I am trying to unistall but how do I revert my .bashrc to previous settings?
In current .bashrc file "NODIST_BIN_DIR=$(echo "$NODIST_PREFIX" | sed -e 's,\,/,g')/bin; if [ -f "$NODIST_BIN_DIR/nodist.sh" ]; then . "$NODIST_BIN_DIR/nodist.sh"; fi; unset NODIST_BIN_DIR; NODIST_BIN_DIR=$(echo "$NODIST_PREFIX" | sed -e 's,\,/,g')/bin; if [ -f "$NODIST_BIN_DIR/nodist.sh" ]; then . "$NODIST_BIN_DIR/nodist.sh"; fi; unset NODIST_BIN_DIR; export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin NODIST_BIN_DIR=$(echo "$NODIST_PREFIX" | sed -e 's,\,/,g')/bin; if [ -f "$NODIST_BIN_DIR/nodist.sh" ]; then . "$NODIST_BIN_DIR/nodist.sh"; fi; unset NODIST_BIN_DIR;"
Marcel Klehr
@marcelklehr
@Pattrick_gitlab It's probably safe to just remove all references to nodist from the file
Patrick Tierney
@Pattrick_gitlab
ok thanks
probably good add to uninstall docs
botato
@ilikepotatoes121
heya, im doing a project and im wondering how nodist gets the latest node version