Use as a dependency of another node project?

[heff]

With the install script, I'm assuming this can't be easily used as an NPM dependency of another project, is that right? I'm hoping to find a node-git lib that can.

[tbranyen]

Me too, lets work on getting it there ;-)

[heff]

What needs to happen to make the install script not needed?

[tbranyen]

The install script isn't the issue. We just need to improve it to work as
well as something like socket.io.
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[heff]

I don't know enough about either project to know what that means, but happy to try to help if it can be narrowed down to specific tasks.

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The install script isn't the issue. We just need to improve it to work as
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[nkallen]

I don't really follow this thread. I've used this project as a dependency. Does it not work as a transitive dependency? Have you verified this and can paste error messages?

[tbranyen]

@nkallen This project does not easily work on Windows or any machine that doesn't have CMake natively installed. That makes it different from every other easily consumable NPM module. There are a handful of well done native modules that either offer a pure JS alternative and only use native code if it can be compiled and executed as a speed boost (see Socket.io or node-mongo-native) or fetch binaries. I've started working on this, but I'm not 100% sure how to easily generate a binary for every compatible system. An example of a project that does this is the node phantomjs module.

[heff]

For my own purposes, the answer to my original question is that it can be used as a dependency. I misread the build instructions in the readme as the way to install the lib. Sorry.

[tbranyen]

Okay I still would like to encourage forward movement on the project by making the library suitable for general use.