Why do that? Then you're just adding another point of failure.
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Morteza Milani <[email protected]>wrote:
> Create tarballs for each platform that contains all binaries you need.
> serve them somewhere.
>
> Create a downloader script that downloads tarballs based on users'
> platform.
>
> Then in your package.json:
>
> "scripts": {
> "preinstall": "./bin/downloader || true; node-gyp rebuild"
> }
>
> This is what I do here: https://github.com/milani/appjs/tree/master/bin
>
> On Saturday, May 5, 2012 3:28:39 AM UTC+4:30, Marcel wrote:
>>
>> Title says it all.
>>
>> It seems that modules with a compile stage can sometimes be difficult for
>> users to get installed. Ubuntu users may not have their node headers
>> installed, Windows users may not have any compiler at all, Linux users may
>> have broken build environments, there's just lots of issues that come up
>> and often require manual intervention.
>>
>> @japj right now is doing some awesome work getting fibers working on
>> Windows (as far as I can tell it's pretty much done) and it's got me
>> thinking about distribution for Windows users. It would be simple enough to
>> build a version of each tag for Windows 32/64 & Linux 32/64/arm & OS X
>> 32/64. Of course source would also be distributed so you could build it on
>> your own if you're feeling adventurous or if you're on a different platform.
>>
>> But is someone going to beat me up if I stick a bunch of compiled
>> binaries into npm?
>>
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