From 0895ea3e50cbad95ce67460a906323610f1f40a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Schepanovski <suor.web@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 01:25:44 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Use symlinks instead of copying files upon switch.

Bakward incompatable change - any modules and executables
such as npm, coffee and even n itself are now diffrent
for diffrent node versions. This is probably a good thing anyway.
---
 bin/n | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/n b/bin/n
index a233bdb3..072d7e6e 100755
--- a/bin/n
+++ b/bin/n
@@ -138,12 +138,11 @@ install_node() {
   # activate
   local dir=$VERSIONS_DIR/$version
   if test -d $dir; then
-    # TODO: refactor, this is lame
-    cd $dir \
-      && mkdir -p $N_PREFIX/lib/node \
-      && cp -fR $dir/include/node $N_PREFIX/include \
-      && cp -fR $dir/bin/* $N_PREFIX/bin \
-      && cp -fR $dir/lib/node/* $N_PREFIX/lib/node/ .
+    # symlink everything, purge old copies or symlinks
+    for d in bin lib share include; do
+      rm -rf $N_PREFIX/$d
+      ln -s $dir/$d $N_PREFIX/$d
+    done
   # install
   else
     local tarball="node-v$version.tar.gz"