svn commit: r568508 - head/devel/node-gyp

[Joseph Mingrone]

On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 23:35, Juraj Lutter <otis at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>> On 16 Mar 2021, at 23:19, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> The rationale being that given X ports that depend on a node module, you
>> will probably need more than X versions of that module because they
>> will all depend on incompatible versions of said module.


> Yes, this makes sense.

>> A port that requires node modules must provide its own.  It can
>> absolutely be by having an extra step for the maintainer to generate a
>> tarball with all the required modules that can simply be extracted as
>> needed.  I have not checked, but there are probably ports already doing
>> this.

> OK, I can do the check.

> Onre more concern: How to deal with binary modules for various FreeBSD versions?

> Thanks.

Maybe the now-deleted net-im/mastodon port [1], which packaged its own
node modules, could be a helpful template.

[1] https://www.freshports.org/net-im/mastodon/

Good luck,

Joe
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