inexor-flex depends on node-gyp needs python as an end-user dependency

[Fohlen]

Title says it all.
Since python 2.7 is shipped by default on almost every linux and OSX that's not too bad. For windows, that could do it:

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows-build-tools

[Fohlen]

this is also related to #269
@terencode I will test wether the above module works, and if so, we can add it to the install instructions for Windows

[Fohlen]

will be solved by #277

[Croydon]

Is there no way we can get rid of Python as an end-user dep?

[Fohlen]

Unless you want to build gyp, a c++ compiler, cmake and python as virtual packages:
no.

[Croydon]

Could you please explain the dep tree? Why do we need node-gyp, therefore gyp..?

[Fohlen]

grpc, segfault handler build via node-gyp, build via gyp.
gyp is on top of python
gyp also requires a compiler-toolset (what you would call build-essential on Debian)

[a-teammate]

node-gyp is used by two dependencies (one which is essential: grpc and one which is really useful: segfault-handler) which are build in c++ rather than js but have node.js bindings.
node-gyp is a meta-build tool comparable to CMake but written in python and deprecated (its underlying technology was created by google: GYP).
It's also not python 3.x compatible.

The suggested tool looks pretty good.
You are probably right @Fohlen to let the installer (#277) install the windows-build-tools globally first (it's not becoming apparent though how to use this module to build npm install cleanly afterwards, or is it?

[Fohlen]

@a-teammate and I agreed to fork segfault-handler and pre-compile it via node-pre-gyp
That way

• we squash bugs in the segfault lib
• get rid of Python as an end dependency

[Croydon]

FYI: We are not the only ones annoyed by the situation

nodejs/NG#24
https://github.com/cmake-js/cmake-js
nodejs/node-gyp#960

[Fohlen]

This issue will be resolved by #465 indefinitely

[a-teammate]

Since we removed the node-segfault-handler temporarily, we can close this.
As we finished #465 we can enable the handling of segfault errors in native node modules again.