Consider gyp.js?

[indutny]

Hello everyone!

We're working on https://github.com/indutny/gyp.js , which is a port of GYP to Node.js. I think the project is reaching the point when it could be actually used as an alternative "backend" for node-gyp.

What do you think about bundling it here under a flag to see how well it will work?

Thank you,
Fedor.

[Fishrock123]

What do you think about bundling it here under a flag to see how well it will work?

I think that is an excellent starting point.

I suppose a flag would just change the child-process invocation to gyp.js?

Not sure I'm the best person to lead on this though, I'm pretty pre-occupied.

[indutny]

@Fishrock123 yep, the flag will just do this.

[indutny]

Though, important thing about gyp.js is that it may not work on older versions of node, because of extensive ES6 usage. Is this going to be a problem for us, or can we manage it through semver?

[Fishrock123]

@indutny We might be able to transpile it back. Does it work on v4 or just v6?

[indutny]

Just v6 at the moment.

[pmed]

@indutny See PR: #962