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Add path function to detect binary #40

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After installation if you wish to specify a path to the installed binary, it's useful for this module to be able to tell the world where it put the binary, so this PR adds .path and .path.silent() functions to do that.

This way we can use the installed module without having to rely on any external context or platform.

Also adds a step to skip re-downloading binaries when they have already been downloaded.

After installation if you wish to specify a path to the installed
binary, it's useful for this module to be able to tell the world
where it put the binary, so this PR adds `.path` and `.path.silent()`
functions to do that.

This way we can use the installed module without having to rely on
any external context or platform.
achingbrain added a commit to ipfs/js-ipfs that referenced this pull request Feb 10, 2020
Ask the repo if it has been initialised, if so, allow the user to
skip the `.init()` step and move on to `.start()`

Removes the proxy api object in favour of vanilla functions because
it was causing errors to be thrown if you even referenced properties
that were from a different api state.

E.g. with an unitialised repo:

```javascript
const ipfs = await IPFS.create({
  init: false,
  start: false
})

// no invocation, just referencing the property causes an error to be thrown
console.info(ipfs.start)
```

I'd looked at changing the proxy behaviour to return a function that
throws if invoked, but at the time the proxy is called you don't know
what the calling code is going to do with the return value so it's hard
to know if it's accessing a function or a property - the return value is
just put on the stack and interacted with so it seemed simpler to just
pull it out and define the API up front.

A nice future improvement might be to have `.init`, `.start` and `.stop`
export functions that update the API - that way after `.stop` has been
invoked, it could restore the API from the post-`.init` state, but this
can come later.

Also upgrades `ipfsd-ctl` to pass refs only during factory creation.

Depends on:

- [ ] ipfs/js-ipfsd-ctl#457
- [ ] ipfs/js-ipfs-repo#219
- [ ] ipfs-inactive/npm-go-ipfs-dep#40
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Released as 0.4.23-3

achingbrain added a commit to ipfs/js-ipfs that referenced this pull request Feb 13, 2020
Ask the repo if it has been initialised, if so, allow the user to
skip the `.init()` step and move on to `.start()`

Removes the proxy api object in favour of vanilla functions because
it was causing errors to be thrown if you even referenced properties
that were from a different api state.

E.g. with an unitialised repo:

```javascript
const ipfs = await IPFS.create({
  init: false,
  start: false
})

// no invocation, just referencing the property causes an error to be thrown
console.info(ipfs.start)
```

I'd looked at changing the proxy behaviour to return a function that
throws if invoked, but at the time the proxy is called you don't know
what the calling code is going to do with the return value so it's hard
to know if it's accessing a function or a property - the return value is
just put on the stack and interacted with so it seemed simpler to just
pull it out and define the API up front.

A nice future improvement might be to have `.init`, `.start` and `.stop`
export functions that update the API - that way after `.stop` has been
invoked, it could restore the API from the post-`.init` state, but this
can come later.

Also upgrades `ipfsd-ctl` to pass refs only during factory creation.

Depends on:

- [ ] ipfs/js-ipfsd-ctl#457
- [ ] ipfs/js-ipfs-repo#219
- [ ] ipfs-inactive/npm-go-ipfs-dep#40

fix: do not allow parallel init, start or stop

If the user is calling `.init`, `.start` or `.stop` from the code
in multiple places simultaneously, they probably have a bug in
their code and we should let them know instead of masking it.
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