NodeJS: Fix fetching of latest version number

[franzliedke]

Apparently, they changed something again. Download only works like that for me (when using "latest").

[fideloper]

Is there a better way to get the latest version? There's gotta be something less janky!

[franzliedke]

Hmm, maybe the GitHub tags API? I'll take a look tonight.
Am 16.10.2015 16:18 schrieb "Chris Fidao" notifications@github.com:

Merged #508 #508.

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[franzliedke]

Hmm, we can use this API endpoint, which lists the latest releases. Apparently it's sorted by release date; not sure whether that can cause problems if they ever release versions for older branches...

What do you think, @fideloper?

[franzliedke]

Or we can use this directory listing - that should work better.

[fideloper]

Good find!

Looks like we can get some json here: https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json
or CSV here: https://nodejs.org/dist/index.tab

And take the most recent/first value to find that (altho not sure how bad
that is to parse in bash).

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Or we can use this directory listing https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/ -
that should work better.

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