I also had a few issues with GYP. It's not consistance across different boxes(even with same node version). Different python versions cause issues. Sometimes os installed gyp gives some trouble.
If there is a standalone binary we can ship with node distribution that'd be great. (seems like gn is a binary <http://goo.gl/fYoeFT>) --- Arunoda Susiripala I curate Meteor Weekly - Check it out! <http://meteorhacks.com/meteor-weekly/?utm_source=email-footer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=meteorweekly> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Fedor Indutny <[email protected]> wrote: > The best question to ask is - what problems do we have with GYP? > > Is it hard to support it when google will drop it? > > I had some problems with GYP, but generally it is very easy to use and to > configure. Looks like GN is quite good too, but not that much to make all > addons authors move to it. > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Alex Kocharin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> There are two different questions here: >> >> 1. What to use to build node.js itself? >> 2. What to use to build native modules? >> >> For now it's GYP for both, later node.js maybe will be built with GN. >> >> I wonder what to do with native modules though. GYP will have to be >> supported for a looong time anyway, and... >> >> Is it possible/makes sense to use another build system with npm right now >> without explicit npm support? >> >> >> 09.07.2014, 22:06, "Ingwie Phoenix" <[email protected]>: >> > GN, Generate Ninja, is a pretty cool project, actually. >> > >> > I actually always wondered: We have a scripting engine. Why do we rely >> on Python for GYP, if we have NodeJS? Is there no gyp replacement in node >> itself? Its something that I just never understood... Since the only people >> that build from source will very likely have python installed, knowing that >> they will need GYP. >> > >> > So I would suggest to switch to GN, or to make your fully own tool to >> help on that. Its not too hard either. I am working on a build tool myself, >> that I will very likely extend to be able to build nodejs modules, by >> querying GYP or a nodejs module, for the location of header files. >> > >> > Just my 2 cents on that. :3 >> > >> > Oh, also, has anybody ever seen a stand-alone source tree of GN? I have >> not... >> > >> > PS. 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