Install not working on Heroku

[lloydwatkin]

See xmppjs/xmpp.js#212 (comment)

[lloydwatkin]

Error log: https://gist.github.com/lloydwatkin/8335298

[lloydwatkin]

@mrquincle @chris-rock

[chris-rock]

could this work?
https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres/blob/master/package.json#L32

[lloydwatkin]

I'm not familiar with heroku, what's the best way to test this?

[mrquincle]

Heroku is really simple to set and free to try out. Just a basic node-xmpp example will do. You will need to add a Procfile with the line

web: node app.js

Following the quick start on https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs sets you up, I estimate, in less than 10 minutes.

[chris-rock]

I think the main problem is, that the compilation fails and npm aborts the installation. Since node-stringprep works without the compilation, we just need to catch the npm error. From my perspective we could try the approach from postgre because the have a nodejs and a native version within the same module.

[lloydwatkin]

we could push the original node-stringprep part down into another optional module and then have this as a falling back wrapper.

Will try and look at this heroku stuff, but realistically we're looking at Sunday until I can.

[mrquincle]

Okay, if I add the line:

 "install": "node-gyp rebuild || (exit 0)"

then this is the result: https://gist.github.com/mrquincle/8335834

[mrquincle]

That's fine.

For now just

    , "node-xmpp-client": "0.1.4"

solves it for me. That one links to the 0.2.x versions of node-xmpp-core which have it still as an optional dependency:

npm view node-xmpp-client@0.1.4 dependencies
{ request: '~2.27.0',
  ltx: '~0.3.2',
  'faye-websocket': '~0.7.0',
  'node-xmpp-core': '~0.2.0' }