Allow cache dir to be overridden with NVM_CACHE_DIR

[wolfgang]

Hello,

I added the possibility to override the cache directory that nvm uses.
I ran into a problem with a combination of electron-compile and electron-mocha, where electron-compile thought the nvm cache is its compile cache, and hilarity ensued. Anyway, I use it like this:

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
export NVM_CACHE_DIR=$NVM_DIR/.nvm_cache
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm

Thanks,
Wolfgang

[ljharb]

That sounds like a major bug in electron-compile - have you filed it upstream on that repo?

I intentionally didn't make this overrideable; I want 100% of nvm-managed files inside $NVM_DIR.

[wolfgang]

Yeah, that is fair. I will actually look into electron-compile.
Understand the wish to keep things under $NVM_DIR .. maybe just make the name of the cache directory configurable? So it would always be $NVM_DIR/$NVM_CACHE_DIR_NAME or something.
Thanks :)

[wolfgang]

You are right though, it is a major bug in electron-prebuilt-compile. I have filed an issue there. Using a different name for the cache folder will not completely work around it.
Consider this withdrawn. Thanks!

[ljharb]

Thanks - can you link to the issue?

[wolfgang]

I actually submitted a pull request, here: electron-userland/electron-prebuilt-compile#40 :)