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Rename node -> iojs #249
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on Jan 7, 2015 @bnoordhuis Please let me know when you have a PR - I'll put in my node.exe stub.
@isaacs is there any adjustment on npm that needs to be made in order to keep it compatible with this rename or will a symlink to
nodebe created precisely to avoid that?npm uses the binary name
node. Roughly 100% of all existing bin scripts do the same. The symlink is absolutely necessary.Will there be any way of npm using some kind of feature detection to decide whether to use feature A or B when running under io.js? For instance, leveraging an important performance optimization.
@ruimarinho Just the standard stuff you already have. process.execPath, process.version, feature detection for the existence of specific functions/etc.
on Windows we will likely end up with
process.execPathbeingnode.exewithout the luxury of following a symlink to iojs so that's going to be trickyI'll take care of the alias.
Now that we're a few releases in, is there anything left to do here?
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