node-zopfli package seems no longer maintained

[plroebuck]

Seemingly abandoned multiple months back. Binaries no longer available from AWS.

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bruce-one/node-zopfli fork was reported to work.

This worked for me, but I have build tools installed

$ npm install --build-from-source node-zopfli

[papandreou]

Hmm, depressing.

bruce-one's fork doesn't seem to be published as an npm package, and npm i bruce-one/node-zopfli fails on my Ubuntu box: https://gist.github.com/papandreou/6bf1fd441dc96c3062296fbb6a1b07e6

[papandreou]

We have the current node-zopfli as an optional dependency, so npm install should still succeed and we should handle it gracefully?

assetgraph-builder/package.json

Line 65 in 04490bd

"node-zopfli": "2.0.2"

[plroebuck]

As a user, I saw an error attempting installation. Yes, AG-B installed, but people unaware of the optional nature would think the whole thing failed...

Maybe use a self-provided fork instead?

[salomvary]

👍 for removing this dependency. Even though it is an optional dependency, each time npm install is run it will try to install node-zopfli flooding the terminal with warnings and error messages.

[papandreou]

Already underway in #633 🤗