Manage multiple installations of the same Node version

[nvm-sh]

Manage multiple installations of the same Node version

[creationix]

It's not hard to do, it's just not as clean and easy as the default behavior. I do this all the time to test different versions of v8 with the same node.

If you want the exact same node binary, simply clone the folder to a new name and it will show up in the list. You may need to restrict the characters used so it still matches in the regexp's.

For example, to have a clone of the latest stable node, do the following in your nvm folder (assuming you've already installed v0.4.11)

cd /home/tim/Code/nvm
rsync -av v0.4.11/ v0.4.11b/
nvm use v0.4.11b
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

If you want a slightly different node binary, then go into the source folder and reconfigure with a new prefix. Then make and make install (no sudo)

cd /home/tim/Code/nvm/src/node-v0.4.11
# make changes to source
./configure --prefix=/home/tim/Code/nvm/v0.4.11c
make
make install
nvm use v0.4.11c
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Since this is a less used feature and it's not that hard to do by hand, I'd rather not bloat the project with it built-in.