Add support for Alpine Linux distro

[jacobdr]

Running this package in an alpine-based Python image currently fails.

The simplest reproduction is:

docker run -it --rm python:3.10-alpine pip install nodejs-bin

I happen to be on an M1, but this also fails while emulating the x86_64 platform:

docker run -it --rm --platform linux/amd64 python:3.10-alpine ash

Ideally this package would work as well within Alpine

The pip debug output for my build native :

/ # pip debug --verbose
WARNING: This command is only meant for debugging. Do not use this with automation for parsing and getting these details, since the output and options of this command may change without notice.
pip version: pip 22.2.2 from /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip (python 3.10)
sys.version: 3.10.8 (main, Oct 25 2022, 03:04:20) [GCC 11.2.1 20220219]
sys.executable: /usr/local/bin/python
sys.getdefaultencoding: utf-8
sys.getfilesystemencoding: utf-8
locale.getpreferredencoding: UTF-8
sys.platform: linux
sys.implementation:
  name: cpython
'cert' config value: Not specified
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE: None
CURL_CA_BUNDLE: None
pip._vendor.certifi.where(): /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/certifi/cacert.pem
pip._vendor.DEBUNDLED: False
vendored library versions:
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  rich==12.5.1 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
  pygments==2.12.0
  typing_extensions==4.3.0 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
  resolvelib==0.8.1
  setuptools==44.0.0 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
  six==1.16.0
  tenacity==8.0.1 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
  tomli==2.0.1
  webencodings==0.5.1 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
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Pip debug output for linux/amd64:

/ # pip debug --verbose
WARNING: This command is only meant for debugging. Do not use this with automation for parsing and getting these details, since the output and options of this command may change without notice.
pip version: pip 22.2.2 from /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip (python 3.10)
sys.version: 3.10.8 (main, Oct 13 2022, 23:21:19) [GCC 11.2.1 20220219]
sys.executable: /usr/local/bin/python
sys.getdefaultencoding: utf-8
sys.getfilesystemencoding: utf-8
locale.getpreferredencoding: UTF-8
sys.platform: linux
sys.implementation:
  name: cpython
'cert' config value: Not specified
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE: None
CURL_CA_BUNDLE: None
pip._vendor.certifi.where(): /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/certifi/cacert.pem
pip._vendor.DEBUNDLED: False
vendored library versions:
  CacheControl==0.12.11
  colorama==0.4.5
  distlib==0.3.5
  distro==1.7.0
  msgpack==1.0.4
  packaging==21.3
  pep517==0.12.0
  platformdirs==2.5.2
  pyparsing==3.0.9
  requests==2.28.1
  certifi==2022.06.15
  chardet==5.0.0
  idna==3.3
  urllib3==1.26.10
  rich==12.5.1 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
  pygments==2.12.0
  typing_extensions==4.3.0 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
  resolvelib==0.8.1
  setuptools==44.0.0 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
  six==1.16.0
  tenacity==8.0.1 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
  tomli==2.0.1
  webencodings==0.5.1 (Unable to locate actual module version, using vendor.txt specified version)
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[jacobdr]

I have a WIP fix here: https://github.com/jacobdr/nodejs-pypi/pull/1/files

[samwillis]

Ah, I was unaware of https://github.com/nodejs/unofficial-builds/, initially I was a little nervous of distributing "unofficial" builds, but they are almost "official unofficial" being build and distributed on nodejs owned infrastructure. So happy to go ahead and package them too.

I think we should add a disclaimer on the project Readme indicating that the binary distributions for those platforms are "unofficial".

[jacobdr]

@samwillis done in 9147ada