Add pre-compiled binaries for Nodejs v19 (for newly introduced node-pty dependency)

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Description

cdktf-cli v0.15 is going to change the way the Terraform CLI is invoked when deploying infrastucture (#1955). The new implementation relies on invoking the Terraform CLI interactively using node-pty. We currently use the package node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch which includes pre-compiled binaries for the native code used by node-pty to allow installing cdktf-cli without having tooling available to compile C code.

Unfortunately node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch does not contain bindings for Nodejs v19 and we also prefer to stay in control over those binaries, which is why we forked that package.

The package node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch uses two approaches (prebuild and prebuildify) to build and ship pre-compiled binaries, whereas nowadays prebuildify apparently is the recommended way to go.

We have an open PR in our fork that switches to using only prebuildify.

This issue captures the work happening in that PR and links it to our Release Milestone 0.15 to make it visible.

Check out cdktf/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch#5 for a list of open tasks currently missing in that PR.

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