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Comment by latimer | Hacker News Reader

FYI for anyone looking for the downloads, v6.0 technically hasn't been released yet. It will most likely be out within a few hours.

Edit: of course right after I say it isn't released, it is released. :)

Release post: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.0.0/

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But I want it now!

    $ nvm ls v6
            N/A

    $ echo ':('
    :(

On a more serious note this really is an awesome release. Kudos to everyone that works on Node.js!

Ever since the "reunification" of node.js/io.js there's been a whirlwind of great activity both in adding features as well as LTS releases (which are critical for long term adoption of the platform).

And it's now on nvm :)

    nvm install v6.0.0

    $ nvm ls-remote v6
         v6.0.0

    $ echo ':)'
    :)

Sweet!

Looks like there is not yet a Homebrew PR: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pulls

Current formula still points to v5.11: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...

EDIT: PR created: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/633

Looks like a PR was created ~4min ago.

Sidenote - was just messing with Homebrew a few days ago, and found it a little bizarre that all of the recipes are in source control and require a pull to update, rather than being on a server somewhere.

Such things can get painful for github

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...

I think that's a different issue.

That issue says that Homebrew is doing just fine. Not painful.

Seems reminiscent of the BSD ports approach, which is one of the major reasons a switch to FreeBSD (from Linux) is still on my personal roadmap.

I think you meant:

> all of the recipes are in source control and require a pull to update AND so they are on a server somewhere.

For posterity, this was merged in https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/b8b57c76523...