`latest` symlink

[asottile]

The directory structure of https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/download/release/ is very similar to that of http://nodejs.org/dist/ but does not provide a latest symlink

I'd be happy to contribute this, I'm poking around the files in bin currently but may need some direction

[asottile]

actually, I don't need this it seems

I was using /dist/latest but it turns out I can just as easily parse index.json in /download/release -- this is consistent across nodejs.org / iojs.org / unofficial-builds.nodejs.org 🎉

thanks again for these builds, super helpful (alpine)

[rvagg]

^ for the record, the lack of latest is intentional. It's a holdover from long ago that shouldn't be used but is now impossible to remove because people are using it. index.json and index.tab should be the only mechanisms you use to discover "latest".

Examples of using it:

• https://gist.github.com/rvagg/742f811be491a49ba0b9
• https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml.sh
• https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/blob/f355b327d6a2a4e8020e943974086d53f00f9a02/nvm.sh#L1147-L1151

[asottile]

makes total sense, I'm converting a popular tool nodeenv to use those files: https://github.com/ekalinin/nodeenv/pull/247