npm install meteor instead of the scary curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

[dandv]

We've seen a lot of negative reactions to Meteor's canonical way of installing itself (e.g. from the Moment.js developers, and from d3's @mbostock), even though that .sh script can be read and understood in two minutes. Most of it deals with extremely old versions of meteor, but the meat is

TARBALL_URL="https://d3sqy0vbqsdhku.cloudfront.net/packages-bootstrap/...
curl --progress-bar --fail "$TARBALL_URL" | tar -xzf - -C "$INSTALL_TMPDIR" -o

(plus some symlinking)

Can anyone pick up on @substack's work on meteor for npm?