'svgop' released. Compiled binary executables of svgo for macOS and Windows

[twardoch]

Hi all,

I’ve spent the last night on preparing compiled binary executable packages of svgo for macOS and Windows which can be run without Nodejs installed. The result is at:

• https://github.com/twardoch/svgop

I used pkg to prepare the distributables. pkg choked on two things:

• some aspects of coa.js (so I ended up not using it but just hardcoding some parameters),
• the dynamic loading of plugins (the require('../../plugins/' + name) thing), so I ended up hardcoding the list of plugins and using portions of the rejected PR 614 by @joeldenning.

Also: I don’t know shit about JS (really) and about Node and about packaging, so I ended up with a very hacky Makefile which hacks it all together. :) But it works!

I’d still prefer if svgo plugin loading was rewritten upstream in a way that doesn’t make pkg (and Jspm and possibly other environments) choke. The current method is not nice.

Patches, pull requests or comments on https://github.com/twardoch/svgop are most welcome.

[twardoch]

(I also briefly thought on taking on #411 but realized that I’m far too slow with writing JS. But anyone else is most welcome to tackle that one! :) ).

[douglasmiranda]

This tool (svgo) is the best so far!

Would be awesome a official binary release.

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I saw a reference here too #777 (comment) but no answer, some official member could clarify here if there's interest to release standalone executables.

[twardoch]

I've managed to compile svgo with QuickJS, so the native macOS binary is now 1.9 MB. Previous method (pkg) produced 83 MB :)

https://github.com/twardoch/svgop

[TrySound]

Great! Check the new version https://github.com/svg/svgo/releases/tag/v2.0.0
Dynamic plugins loading is removed. Though config is still loaded this way.