I recently installed the 'phantomjs' module, and was surprised to see the installation script downloaded the phantomjs binary for the appropriate platform (i.e. it did this on linux and windows). This makes complete sense, phantom is probably both time consuming and complicated to compile, but it made the module installation quite slick.
Could the same approach be used to install other native modules? I know the node approach is to compile the source for native modules, but on Windows this is painful (sometimes very painful). Perhaps the missing part of the equation is an automated build system for native modules, which would provide the built binaries for certain platforms. If you're on a compatible platform then NPM gets the binary from there, otherwise you're back to building it on your own. Rich. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
