ABI agnostic packages

[piranna]

How is it possible to define that a package is ABI agnostic both for publishing and download? Maybe setting the ABI to *? If it's not currently possible, could it be easy to add this functionality? For download it could check if there's one for the current ABI and if not check for the *, what do you think?

[juliangruber]

what are abi agnostic packages, can you link to one?

[piranna]

I'm using prebuild to publish npm packages with the cross-compiler of NodeOS and other external tools like genextfs, and being standalone binaries it doesn't make sense the concept of Node.js ABI at all, but instead it makes sense to have published precompiled binaries so the users don't need to compile themselves.

[vweevers]

N-API is the preferred way to achieve this. I don't think it's feasible or desirable to have prebuild support both N-API and custom ways of abi agnostic packages. You might be able to "mask" your custom binary as an N-API binary though, and trick prebuild(-install) into loading that.

[piranna]

N-API doesn't apply here because I'm not creating native Node.js modules but instead I'm distributing executables not directly related to Node.js at all, so ABI version is useless here.

[vweevers]

Sorry, I misunderstood.