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by latimer 3711 days ago
FYI for anyone looking for the downloads, v6.0 technically hasn't been released yet. It will most likely be out within a few hours.

Edit: of course right after I say it isn't released, it is released. :)

Release post: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.0.0/

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But I want it now!

    $ nvm ls v6
            N/A

    $ echo ':('
    :(
On a more serious note this really is an awesome release. Kudos to everyone that works on Node.js!

Ever since the "reunification" of node.js/io.js there's been a whirlwind of great activity both in adding features as well as LTS releases (which are critical for long term adoption of the platform).

And it's now on nvm :)

    nvm install v6.0.0

    $ nvm ls-remote v6
         v6.0.0

    $ echo ':)'
    :)
Sweet!
Looks like a PR was created ~4min ago.

Sidenote - was just messing with Homebrew a few days ago, and found it a little bizarre that all of the recipes are in source control and require a pull to update, rather than being on a server somewhere.

I think that's a different issue.
That issue says that Homebrew is doing just fine. Not painful.
Seems reminiscent of the BSD ports approach, which is one of the major reasons a switch to FreeBSD (from Linux) is still on my personal roadmap.
I think you meant:

> all of the recipes are in source control and require a pull to update AND so they are on a server somewhere.

I was just able to download it (for macOS) from the front page.

https://nodejs.org/en/

I just got it on NVM.
~ 10 minutes later