On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Eyal Arubas wrote: > > > Thanks, but I would like to avoid having to pre-install any binary > dependency. Whether it's Cairo or ImageMagick. > > cairo is a library, not a binary. > > But I also don't understand the distinction you're making between > libraries and binaries. Why is it ok for you to ship libraries, but not ok > for you to ship binaries? > cairo is a binary, in terms of deployment. It has to be present in compiled form on the target system before anything using it from Node is installed, because the native components of those modules have to be able to link against it. I totally understand wanting to avoid complicating deployments with native dependencies. F -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CAHG3qKpZPvm6Lv4N0cmYsbGGgOYy2sbgjWryGq2oNRae%3DnUHPw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
