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Offer n as an installation option on macOS and Linux #6738
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Hey there 👋 appreciate your suggestion, but In this category We also want to limit the options to reduce confusion; The more options we show, the lesser the user will know what the hell to use and will give up, hence at most 2 options are shown. Although that's pretty much personal maintainer's decision, we're in the process of reorganising the package managers and version managers tab (as described in the comments of the same PR) and that might allow room for I'm closing this as "wont-fix" as we won't address this now, but feel free to share your opinion, reply here, and etc. Note that this is my personal opinion and might not reflect on the other collaborator's opinions. |
Showing the most popular and the most popular cross-platform is a pragmatic approach to limit the options. Thanks for the explanation.
That link is to a comment with the last years results? However, fnm was the most mentioned cross-platform version manager, getting more mentions in the Other category than
For interest, Both |
You are correct, I misunderstood, Geoffre's statement, it gave the impression he was sharing the partial results of this year's poll.
I was referring from top-to bottom in terms of usages. Definitely there are other version managers that suit most main OSs.
Looking forward for these results. On a different note, I wonder how much of these results actually match on real demographics. My fear is of adding way too many version managers, and people getting lost. The download process should be quick and to the point; IMO we have two version managers there just to cover all main OSs there, personally Im not concerned about popularity of version managers and my intent here is not to "promote them", but just to provide well known and reliable ways of installing Node. If nvm supported natively all main OSs, it would have been the only one to be mentioned there. It's less burden for us to maintain, check if they are up to date, maintained, supporting Node well, including latest versions and all sorts of things. So we are strongly focusing on a reliability and streamlined approach here for users to install Node, if that makes sense. |
@shadowspawn just an update here :) we might reconsider this in the future, as we're planning on separating version managers from OS package managers. We're still thinking how to achieve such a design without overcomplexities. But I'll let you know once we're ready to accept a PR for |
@bmuenzenmeyer @canerakdas @AugustinMauroy recent changes broke this page. Please give urgent attention to this 🙏 |
@sagarpanchal a screenshot on an unrelated issue is not an issue report. the site is working for me on Chrome and Firefox |
Correct, although Im able to reproduce on nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/all |
Enter your suggestions in details:
The new download page is very spiffy! https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager
I maintain n which last year was the second most popular node version manager in the next-10 2023 survey.
I am interesting in including
n
in the download options, but have seen there are multiple things in consideration such as permissions and major-only vs version managers:Are you open to a PR now (like fnm), or should I wait a few weeks while other discussions progress?
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