Setting NODENV_VERSION to a non-existing node causes shims to hang about nodenv

[jasonkarns]

1. Is this behavior unique to the version being set via env var? Or does it also occur when set via .node-version file?
2. Is this behavior consistent with rbenv, of which we are a direct clone? If not, is it because we are behind rbenv upstream or because we're doing something differently?

(not meant specifically for you, @technicalpickles but just in general)

[jasonkarns]

#22 opened to accept with/without v prefix.

[technicalpickles]

Is this behavior unique to the version being set via env var? Or does it also occur when set via .node-version file?

Looks like it's only through the environment variable:

$ echo 'trololol' > .node-version
$ node --version
nodenv: version `trololol' is not installed
$ NODENV_VERSION=trololol node --version


^C

[jasonkarns]

@technicalpickles do you use rbenv? if so, can you replicate with rbenv?

[technicalpickles]

I do:

$ RBENV_VERSION=2.1.1 ruby --version
ruby 2.1.1p76-github (development) [x86_64-darwin13.0]

$ RBENV_VERSION=v2.1 ruby --version
rbenv: version `v2.1' is not installed
ruby 2.1.1p76-github (development) [x86_64-darwin13.0]

$ RBENV_VERSION=v2.1.1 ruby --version
rbenv: version `v2.1.1' is not installed
ruby 2.1.1p76-github (development) [x86_64-darwin13.0]

It looks like the behavior is to fallback to the default ruby.

[jasonkarns]

I've tried replicating with latest master: 6abd31a but can't replicated:

$ NODENV_VERSION=lol ./bin/nodenv exec node --version
nodenv: version `lol' is not installed

It doesn't seem to behave exactly as rbenv, because it emits an error and exits rather than falling back to system node.

Could you provide debug output? (NODENV_DEBUG=1)

[jasonkarns]

Also, I just recently merged latest updates from rbenv upstream. So kindly test against 7594630 if possible.

[technicalpickles]

@jasonkarns I've updated, and confirmed it working now. Thanks a ton!

$ NODENV_VERSION=0.8 node --version
v0.8.28
$ NODENV_VERSION=v0.8 node --version
v0.8.28