Heya,
would it be possible to generate a few common-modern-OS binaries (OSX 10.13/14, Win 10) and using node-pre-gyp to bypass compiling, so that people don't need to deal with the insanity that is node-gyp? Notably, node-gyp is incompatible with python 3, which in 2017 (edit: now 2019) is kind of... well I have words, and they're not kind so let's just say that this causes problems on systems that are for modern Python projects only.
There's a number of npm packages (the most notable one being sqlite3) that use pre-gyp to just pull a precompiled binary from AWS rather than compiling when the platform is known to have an already-built binary, and it makes life so much easier for anyone who wants to just write a program instead of spending 5 hours trying to make a build system work, after which they give up on the idea they had to begin with because their day got massively soured =)
Heya,
would it be possible to generate a few common-modern-OS binaries (OSX 10.13/14, Win 10) and using node-pre-gyp to bypass compiling, so that people don't need to deal with the insanity that is node-gyp? Notably, node-gyp is incompatible with python 3, which in 2017 (edit: now 2019) is kind of... well I have words, and they're not kind so let's just say that this causes problems on systems that are for modern Python projects only.
There's a number of npm packages (the most notable one being sqlite3) that use pre-gyp to just pull a precompiled binary from AWS rather than compiling when the platform is known to have an already-built binary, and it makes life so much easier for anyone who wants to just write a program instead of spending 5 hours trying to make a build system work, after which they give up on the idea they had to begin with because their day got massively soured =)