Because the module has Chromium Embedded Frame as a dependency. It takes
like an hour to compile on my pretty fast computer, and the Windows
binaries are like 40mb. I think the linux binaries are 300mb.
On Saturday, May 5, 2012 12:51:48 PM UTC-4, Marcel wrote:
>
> Why do that? Then you're just adding another point of failure.
>
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Morteza Milani 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
>>
>>
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