GYP is quite awesome indeed. It just lacks a few small things.
It runs on Python 2.7, and to get Py on windows, youre gonna have to suffer a 
nice flood of download material. I just wish there was a more portable Python. 
Like, a typical PHP build is just 10MB or so - python seems to always come 
around with 100mb or alike o-o
But then again, I am sure only devs really have it installed, since not every 
consumer PC has a toolchain installed... x3
Am So. Feb. 16 2014 14:48:36 schrieb Charlie McConnell:

> gyp is the build system v8 uses, which is why it was adopted for several node 
> purposes.
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> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014, at 05:45 AM, José F. Romaniello wrote:
>> I assume because what it does is complex and no one had the time to rewrite 
>> and maintain. 
>> 
>> Installing python has never been a problem on most *nix. Since Windows 
>> doesn't have an official package manager you have to download it. If you are 
>> a software developer you probably have python 2.7 installed. 
>> 
>> Something that has been discussed over and over without any agreement, IMHO 
>> you shouldn't build your dependencies on production. We pre-built our deps 
>> in CI(which match the target distribution and arch)  before running tests 
>> and we send the pkg ready to run. 
>> 
>> El feb 16, 2014 7:12 a.m., "Gagle" <[email protected]> escribió:
>> I mean, it's a very huge dependency. Node.js can be installed in any system 
>> with low resources. If python were a 5MB dependency, it's ok, but python 
>> also depends on sqlite. Don't you think that node-gyp could be rewritten 
>> itself in node.js? I know it's a hard work but from my point of view, it's 
>> worth trying. 
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