pull in parts of mafintosh/leveldown-prebuilt#master

[ralphtheninja]

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[ralphtheninja]

Seems to be some problems on travis for iojs versions. Not sure what's going on here. /cc @mafintosh

[ralphtheninja]

This should be changed to something more suitable:

[mafintosh]

Yes we should probably just remove the "bump version" commits + change the host to this repo

[ralphtheninja]

@mafintosh Hmm yes. I'm wondering what's the best way to do that. Perhaps I should just take your master branch and git reset --mixed <suitable_sha1> and push up a new branch.

[ralphtheninja]

So this is kind of tricky to rewrite since the master branch of leveldown has been merged twice into your branch. I think I prefer just doing a merge from Level/leveldown#master into mafintosh/leveldown-prebuilt#master and push up a new branch. The trade off is that commit history is a bit dirty. I'll play around a bit first to see if I can make it work.

[ralphtheninja]

@mafintosh I did as follows.

I created a new branch based on commit 541a065:

Then merged latest leveldown#master into that branch.

Essentially undoing:

and

[juliangruber]

why is that?

[ralphtheninja]

because https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp#1-add-new-entries-to-your-packagejson, not sure why it's not just a dependency

[juliangruber]

ah ok, weird

[springmeyer]

node-pre-gyp needs to be a bundledDep (sadly) because otherwise it might not be usable (fully installed) by the time npm calls out to it. See mapbox/node-pre-gyp#162 for ideas about avoiding this (and being able to safely have node-pre-gyp dynamically installed and still available in time)

[ralphtheninja]

Fwiw, this seems to work fine https://github.com/Level/leveldown/blob/node-pre-gyp-and-travis/package.json#L30-L36 with travis

[juliangruber]

+1

[ralphtheninja]

iojs working again, merging.

[ralphtheninja]

Tests failed because I deleted my remote branch. Just fyi.