On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:28 PM, rauschma <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Nathan Rajlich: npm was a great pointer! I’m working on a module that
> uses npm’s technique to achieve the same thing. Works great on OS X
> already. Alas, one has to check process.platform, which is not ideal.
>

There's nothing wrong with using process.platform. That's what it's there
for :p

IMHO, npm proves my point that Node.js is awesome for shell
> programming.
>

Indeed :)


>
> On Feb 25, 2:24 am, Nathan Rajlich <[email protected]> wrote:
> > npm does this but unfortunately these's no cross-platform sure-fire way
> to
> > do it. I believe npm has specific things it does to open the url in a web
> > browser for each platform (on osx it invokes `open`, on linux
> > `x-www-browser`, etc.)
> >
> > It may be a good idea for someone to extract that logic into a standalone
> > module...
>
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