'Spritezero-cli' dependency issue when trying to install in local env

[Ancymonek]

Recently added "@beyondtracks/spritezero-cli": "^2.3.1", dependency tries to install mapnik, which seems to doesn't work on Windows. I've spent a lot of time installing dependencies (like C++ and Visual Studio) to make it work but i lost this battle. After deleting @beyondtracks/spritezero-cli": "^2.3.1", from package.json and run npm install it works like a charm.

PS It works fine in dev container.

[ttomasz]

It should probably be in devDependencies but that won't solve it for this issue. Seems like they have a lot of issues with missing binaries https://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik/issues . Not sure what to do about it since it's needed only for generating sprites which is something that will be done very rarely when icons change.

[ttomasz]

We could remove it but then generating sprites will be more annoying 😅

[Ancymonek]

@ttomasz mapnik/node-mapnik#848

[ttomasz]

maybe we could leverage something like this https://github.com/macteo/spritezero-docker (or create our own simple docker image) but someone would need to test using that in node script in package.json

[ttomasz]

or bake the dependency it into .devcontainer since i'm using mostly that and provide instructions if someone wants to install it manually on their system 😅
or try using older version that windows supports 🤷

[starsep]

It has been moved to devDependencies in 38dafb9