Nightly builds on download page

[silverwind]

Nightly builds are very hard to find right now and not even reachable through directory navigation from nodejs.org/dist. Can we agree to feature them more prominently on the downloads page, maybe in a small paragraph below the table?

[fhemberger]

Good catch, let's do this. 👍

[rvagg]

We'll have a new line that can go with this too soon, name uncertain but it'll be master on perhaps a weekly schedule with slightly less scary version strings than nightlies nodejs/node#4856

[silverwind]

Oh, and we probably should mention that semver issue with npm warning because of the version string not matching.

@rvagg would you recommend linking to the current nightlies, or should we wait?

[rvagg]

I think they did something about the semver warning in a recent 3.x didn't they? They should be pretty nice to use now.

@silverwind no point waiting, just keep in mind that we'll want to make room for another kind of download. It's unclear whether nightly should be off stable or master or both when we have this new channel. Currently nightlies are turned on for both, so you can get v5 and v6 from there.

[silverwind]

The version issue still persists with the npm provided in the package:

npm WARN engine [email protected]: wanted: {"node":">=0.10"} (current: {"node":"6.0.0-nightly20160127fcae05e4b5","npm":"3.3.12"})
npm WARN engine [email protected]: wanted: {"node":">=0.4.7"} (current: {"node":"6.0.0-nightly20160127fcae05e4b5","npm":"3.3.12"})
npm WARN engine [email protected]: wanted: {"node":">=0.12"} (current: {"node":"6.0.0-nightly20160127fcae05e4b5","npm":"3.3.12"})

[rvagg]

https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#better-node-pre-release-support

looks like it's in 3.6.0, which queued up in core waiting to be unblocked by some graceful-fs drama before it can land but will be in both v5 and v6 nightlies very soon

[silverwind]

Ah, nice to hear. I'd say we defer linking until then, so we don't have to deal with this headache.

[Knighton910]

👍 @silverwind I'd be nice to have on the downloads page.

[stevemao]

Fixed by #559