Feat/optional arch specific binaries

[YOU54F]

The following PR will fix #602

support libpact_ffi & pact-js-core node bindings to be published in seperate npm packages.

these are segmented by ${os}-{arch}-{libc}

users should not need to require these automatically, npm should determine the required
optional dependency to download at install time.

supported_platforms

"@pact-foundation/pact-core-darwin-arm64": "16.0.0",
"@pact-foundation/pact-core-darwin-x64": "16.0.0",
"@pact-foundation/pact-core-linux-arm64-glibc": "16.0.0",
"@pact-foundation/pact-core-linux-arm64-musl": "16.0.0",
"@pact-foundation/pact-core-linux-x64-glibc": "16.0.0",
"@pact-foundation/pact-core-linux-x64-musl": "16.0.0",
"@pact-foundation/pact-core-windows-x64": "16.0.0"

CI Improvements

Significant build time reductions, by reducing the times when prebuilds are created.

• libpact_ffi node bindings as prebuilds will only be created on master
• test suite will download the latest release prebuilds via gh cli, if not on a master branch

This could be further improved to

• build node bindings & prebuilds, on pull requests, where
  • the libpact_ffi version has changed
  • the code in native or the bindings.gyp changes
• allow top level job conditional skipping.
  • it appears you cannot skip an entire job based on a condition, which is a pre-requisite for another job, so you have to nested the condition at each step level.

Testing

Consumed in pact-js, via scoped publish, shown tested in following forked PR

• You54f prebuilds YOU54F/pact-js#3

Published for testing

"@you54f/pact": "14.0.1",
"@you54f/pact-core": "17.0.4",
"@you54f/pact-core-darwin-arm64": "17.0.4",
"@you54f/pact-core-darwin-x64": "17.0.4",
"@you54f/pact-core-linux-arm64-glibc": "17.0.4",
"@you54f/pact-core-linux-arm64-musl": "17.0.4",
"@you54f/pact-core-linux-x64-glibc": "17.0.4",
"@you54f/pact-core-linux-x64-musl": "17.0.4",
"@you54f/pact-core-windows-x64": "17.0.4",

Tested with

• npm (works from node 16+)
• yarn pnp (berry) - latest stable (works from node 18+)
• pnpm (works from node 18+)

      matrix:
        node-version: [16, 18, 20, 22]
        npm_package_manager:
          - yarn
          - pnpm
          - npm
        os: [
            macos-13,
            macos-15,
            ubuntu-24.04,
            ubuntu-24.04-arm,
            windows-latest
          ]
        exclude:
          - npm_package_manager: yarn
            node-version: 16
          - npm_package_manager: pnpm
            node-version: 16

See example workflow / simple project

https://github.com/YOU54F/pact-js-packagers-test/blob/main/.github/workflows/test.yml