Prebuildify is a command-line tool designed to streamline the creation and packaging of prebuilt binaries for Node.js native modules, ensuring compatibility across various platforms and Node.js versions. Version 2.6.1 introduces a significant change in how it handles file manipulation by replacing the fs-extra dependency (present in version 2.6.0) with pump and tar-fs. This refactoring aims to simplify the codebase and potentially improve performance by utilizing more stream-oriented operations for creating the prebuild packages.
Developers upgrading from 2.6.0 should note the removal of fs-extra, which might impact custom scripts that rely on it indirectly through Prebuildify. pump provides utilities for reliably piping streams together, while tar-fs offers a way to create tar archives directly from the file system. This shift suggests a move towards a more focused and potentially more efficient approach to packaging.
Both versions, however, share the core functionalities. They depend on execspawn for executing child processes, minimist for parsing command-line arguments, mkdirp for creating directories, node-abi for determining Node.js ABI compatibility, and xtend for object extension. Developers using Prebuildify benefit from its ability to automatically generate prebuilt binaries, reducing build times for end-users and simplifying the deployment process. The tool is licensed under MIT, encouraging open-source contribution and usage. Development dependencies such as nan, standard and tape are used for testing and linting of the package itself.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 2.6.1 of the package prebuildify
