I must specify something from your statements. The fact the native
module doesn't load really is undesired behavior. The normal nodejs
behavior is make sure that the module is going to load while installing
it, by checking ABI compatibility using various tags. It is expected and
supported that nodejs reports its runtime version, and other parameters
such as platform it's compiled for, to the external world.
A very typical installation path would then be for example:
"module_path":
"src/node/extension_binary/{node_abi}-{platform}-{arch}-{libc}"
And if a pre-compiled binary doesn't exist there, the installation
system will trigger a compilation in order to generate a module that
fits. For node8 for instance, {node_abi} will resolve to "node-v57".
The issue here is that you're transparently masquerading as "nodejs"
while not really being "nodejs". For instance, Electron, which is a
nodejs-like environment, but has a different ABI, will report the
{node_abi} parameter completely differently. Instead of reporting
"node-v57" as above, the Electron 2 runtime which is also based on
node8, will report "electron-v2.0". This makes our lives as npm package
maintainers easy, since we can then select the proper binary based on
it.
So one another solution I'd then see would be for you to bite the
bullet, and stop calling your runtime "nodejs", because, well, it's not
really nodejs. More specifically, your "node8" runtime should report
"node-debian-v57" instead of "node-v57", so we, npm package maintainers,
can do the right thing on our end and either (1) start distributing
node-debian specific prebuilt binaries or (2) let the npm install
realize this is a different runtime than the prebuilt binaries we have
and let it just recompile for this different runtime.
But your obstination on releasing a nodejs runtime that's not really
nodejs while 100% masquerading as the official nodejs will eventually
force us to discourage our users to use your runtime, because there's
nothing we could do to handle the subtle bugs you're introducing on us.
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