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The tragedy of running an old Node project

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272 points abdisalan | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nasmorn ◴[18 Nov 24 21:29 UTC] No.42177264[source]▶
Good old node-gyp. I have absolutely no idea what it even is but it has been giving me errors for what feels like a decade. Mostly via front end build stuff from various projects I have worked on
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pavel_lishin ◴[18 Nov 24 21:42 UTC] No.42177420[source]▶
Same. One day I'll find out what it is.
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1. enqk ◴[19 Nov 24 10:45 UTC] No.42182030[source]▶
if you want to know, it's a fork of google gyp, which is a C/C++ project/build system generator. I.e. it's a bit similar to CMAKE, a tool to describe native code projects and what needs to be built in order to make executables and dlls.

It's a python codebase, largely abandoned by google. They used to use it for building Chrome.