you can set what version of node a module is for in the package.json
"engines": { "node" : "0.6" }
for example. this does mean you'll have two versions of the code,
feature detection may be easier to maintain. you choice.
see `npm help json`
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Roly Fentanes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm in a similar situation with a module I wrote. And I think I'll just
> write a note in the readme specifying which version should be installed for
> node v0.6.x.
>
>
> On Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:35:15 AM UTC-7, Diogo Resende wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a module (node-rack) to abstract the cluster module. It was built
>> for 0.6 and I want to be able to support 0.8 too but not dropping 0.6
>> support. I noticed for example that `kill()` was renamed to `destroy()`. I
>> think this can be easy to detect but what about events? `death`event was
>> changed to `exit`.
>>
>> Is there a way to know what events an object supports or should I just
>> check the node version (using process.version.node) and do my changes from
>> there?
>>
>> I would prefer the first option as it's similar to feature detection. This
>> way I would just check for available methods and events and use the
>> preferred (and available) ones.
>>
>> --
>> Diogo Resende
>>
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