this is a hack on the brilliant nvm to work with Maven instead.
First you'll need to make sure your system has a c++ compiler. For OSX, XCode will work, for Ubuntu, the build-essential and libssl-dev packages work.
To install you could use the install script (requires Git) using cURL:
curl https://raw.github.com/ingenieux/mvm/master/install.sh | sh
or Wget:
wget -qO- https://raw.github.com/ingenieux/mvm/master/install.sh | sh
The script clones the mvm repository to ~/.mvm and adds the source line to your profile (~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile).
For manual install create a folder somewhere in your filesystem with the mvm.sh file inside it. I put mine in a folder called mvm.
Or if you have git installed, then just clone it:
git clone https://github.com/ingenieux/mvm.git ~/.mvm
To activate mvm, you need to source it from your bash shell
source ~/.mvm/mvm.sh
I always add this line to my ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile file to have it automatically sourced upon login.
Often I also put in a line to use a specific version of node.
To download, compile, and install the version 3.1.0, do this:
mvm install 3.1.0
And then in any new shell just use the installed version:
mvm use 0.10
You can create an .mmvrc file containing version number in the project root folder; run the following command to switch versions:
mvm use
Or you can just run it:
mvm run 3.1.0
If you want to see what versions are installed:
mvm ls
If you want to see what versions are available to install:
mvm ls-remote
To restore your PATH, you can deactivate it.
mvm deactivate
To set a default Node version to be used in any new shell, use the alias 'default':
mvm alias default 3.1.0
mvm is released under the MIT license.
Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Tim Caswell
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Tests are written in Urchin. Install Urchin like so.
wget -O /usr/local/bin https://raw.github.com/scraperwiki/urchin/0c6837cfbdd0963903bf0463b05160c2aecc22ef/urchin
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/urchin
(Or put it some other place in your PATH.)
There are slow tests and fast tests. The slow tests do things like install node and check that the right versions are used. The fast tests fake this to test things like aliases and uninstalling. From the root of the mvm git repository, run the fast tests like this.
urchin test/fast
Run the slow tests like this.
urchin test/slow
Run all of the tests like this
urchin test
Nota bene: Avoid running mvm while the tests are running.
To activate, you need to source bash_completion:
[[ -r $MVM_DIR/bash_completion ]] && . $MVM_DIR/bash_completion
Put the above sourcing line just below the sourcing line for NVM in your profile (.bashrc, .bash_profile).
mvm
$ mvm [tab][tab]
alias copy-packages help list run uninstall version
clear-cache deactivate install ls unalias use
mvm alias
$ mvm alias [tab][tab]
default
$ mvm alias my_alias [tab][tab]
v0.4.11 v0.4.12 v0.6.14
mvm use
$ mvm use [tab][tab]
my_alias default v0.4.11 v0.4.12 v0.6.14
mvm uninstall
$ mvm uninstall [tab][tab]
my_alias default v0.4.11 v0.4.12 v0.6.14
If you try to install a node version and the installation fails, be sure to delete the node downloads from src (~/.mvm/src/) or you might get an error when trying to reinstall them again or you might get an error like the following:
curl: (33) HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume.