On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 9:28 , Richard Astbury wrote:
> Here's a crazy idea for you.
>
> Why not extend NPM to connect to a registry (maybe this is an additional
> registry, maybe the NPM one) to look for a compiled version of the native
> module for your OS. Perhaps it only does this if you supply a specific
> command line argument (hopefully this satisfies @mscdex's point).
If going for the flag option, I think people will probably just ignore and
compile locally. Perhaps this could be asked by npm when fetching a module?
("Module X needs compilation. There's one ready online, do you want to download
it? - Author: ....")
>
> The bigger problem is: how do you get the compiled modules into the
> repository?
>
> My suggestion is to crowd source this, again using NPM. If you successfully
> compile a module which doesn't exist in the repository, NPM could then offer
> to upload it, thus making it available for others to download.
+1
>
> No need for an automated build system, no additional demands on the module
> author, only change required is to NPM.
>
> Nate is absolutely right, there are some trust issues here. Perhaps there is
> a way to sign the module in some way to demonstrate authenticity?
This had to be signed by the user and the trust issue is still there. Whether
you know the author and trust him or you don't.
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