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schultyy / avm

Installs Ruby and node.js on your machine
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Make avm cross platform #33

Open schultyy opened 8 years ago

schultyy commented 8 years ago

Right now, avm cannot run on Windows because it relies on the tar command for unzipping downloaded archives. This needs to be replaced with a mechanism which works on all platforms without problems.

skade commented 8 years ago

https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs/ is a pure Rust implementation of tar.

schultyy commented 8 years ago

Also there's no package for Windows which contains both npm and nodejs. There's only an MSI Installer and a nodejs standalone package without npm

schultyy commented 8 years ago

This might do the job: https://gist.github.com/manuelbieh/4178908 One problem is there though: avm needs admin privileges in order to be able to install something new node versions

schultyy commented 8 years ago

To decompress gzip archives this here seems helpful: https://github.com/alexcrichton/flate2-rs