node-pre-gyp binaries so people don't need node-gyp insanity?

[Pomax]

Heya,

would it be possible to generate a few common-modern-OS binaries (OSX 10.13/14, Win 10) and using node-pre-gyp to bypass compiling, so that people don't need to deal with the insanity that is node-gyp? Notably, node-gyp is incompatible with python 3, which in 2017 (edit: now 2019) is kind of... well I have words, and they're not kind so let's just say that this causes problems on systems that are for modern Python projects only.

There's a number of npm packages (the most notable one being sqlite3) that use pre-gyp to just pull a precompiled binary from AWS rather than compiling when the platform is known to have an already-built binary, and it makes life so much easier for anyone who wants to just write a program instead of spending 5 hours trying to make a build system work, after which they give up on the idea they had to begin with because their day got massively soured =)

[aumhaa]

+1

[RossJacobs]

+1

[dturner34]

I just installed python3 and this broke... :(
It would be nice to not depend on such a flaky dependency

[Pomax]

then also make sure to upgrade node-gyp to 6.0 or higher (e.g. installing it yourself without saving it to your package.json), because it works just fine, but ancient versions of gyp have no idea what crazy versions of python the future uses. Look at the npm error report and if it says it's using node-gyp 5 or even older, that's why. And possibly look at your node version to make sure you're on 14 or higher (anything older is as dead as python 2.7)

[Julusian]

I have opened a PR to do an overhaul of this library which includes solving this (#228)
As it doesn't look like there are any maintainers around to merge it, I shall be maintaining a fork which is 100% api compatible https://www.npmjs.com/package/@julusian/midi