> The trouble is it's not just multiple platforms, but multiple node 
versions that you may want to support. I'm assuming your binary is a node 
extension. Is that true?

No its not node extension.

>  You could distribute your module without the binary and tell people to 
grab the binary themselves in whatever way they feel is best.

Do you feel ok if there was no npm to install modules and you had to 
install them manually yourself? Of Course not! its just to ease the 
process. So my downloader is! This is what node-gyp does even.

I don't think its another point of failure. Its even a positive point:

1) Users don't need to download a huge node module that contains 
unnecessary files (those for other platforms). 
2) They don't need to choose among packages in a download page and put it 
in the proper place in directory structure!

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