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jonschlinkert / global-prefix

Get the npm global path prefix. Same code used internally by npm.
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Traverse all npm config (npmrc) files to find global prefix #8

Closed mathiasvr closed 8 years ago

mathiasvr commented 8 years ago

Hi, I made some changes to fix #3, it is not pretty though! 😄

It is a very big change, but should reflect how npm currently gets the global prefix. I kept the code synchronous, but an asynchronous version would probably be better for this.

I don't think there is a way around all the IO. In my case i installed node using homebrew and the module would give me the global prefix as /usr/local/Cellar/node/6.2.0 because of process.execPath, but it was by default being set to /usr/local in the builtin npmrc.

jonschlinkert commented 8 years ago

I don't think there is a way around all the IO.

I think you're right, this just confirms what I ran into when trying to fix this myself!

it looks good I'll try to pull it down tomorrow and merge asap. thanks!