I do agree that this is an important piece of the native addon puzzle that is still missing. This would be extremely helpful for Windows users especially. The reality of making it happen though is not trivial, as we're talking about a build farm of real machines which cost real $ to buy, run and maintain.
Plus there's also the problem of "trustworthiness" of a binary. Who created the binary? Do I trust them? This isn't an insolvable problem, but it's just one of the many things we'll need to consider about this. Also, perhaps TJ Fontaine would have some additional information here, since he set up the nodejs Jenkins builds which perhaps we could leverage somehow. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Richard Astbury <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
