Urgent: installation broken on Node v8

[tomgreenfield]

The nodegit dependency needs to be bumped up; the latest version is 0.20.3. This is because Node v8 is imminently going to enter into Long Term Support.

This will be a breaking change for users still running Node v4. However, that version had its LTS ended back in April of this year and is now in maintenance.

Higher dependency tested working with Node v6.11.5 (current LTS) & v8.8.1 (LTS as of 31/10/17), on Windows 10.

This bug also impacts the authoring tool.

Error log

$ npm install -g adapt-cli
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: ...psst! Your project can stop working at any moment because its dependencies can change. Prevent this by migrating to Yarn: https://bower.io/blog/2017/how-to-migrate-away-from-bower/
C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\adapt -> C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\bin\adapt

> [email protected] install C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\nodegit
> node lifecycleScripts/preinstall && node lifecycleScripts/install

[nodegit] Running pre-install script
[nodegit] Running install script
node-pre-gyp
ERR! Tried to download(403): https://nodegit.s3.amazonaws.com/nodegit/nodegit/nodegit-v0.16.0-node-v57-win32-x64.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v57 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
gyp
ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Can't find Python executable "python", you can set the PYTHON env variable.
gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.failNoPython (C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:483:19)
gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.<anonymous> (C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:508:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:284:29
gyp ERR! stack     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:154:21)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.15063
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\tom.greenfield\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\adapt-cli\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=C:\\Users\\tom.greenfield\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\adapt-cli\\node_modules\\nodegit\\build\\Release\\nodegit.node" "--module_name=nodegit" "--module_path=C:\\Users\\tom.greenfield\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\adapt-cli\\node_modules\\nodegit\\build\\Release"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\nodegit
gyp ERR! node -v v8.8.1
gyp ERR!
node-gyp -v v3.6.2
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp
ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\nodegit\build\Release\nodegit.node --module_name=nodegit --module_path=C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\nodegit\build\Release' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\node-pre-gyp\lib\util\compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:927:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5)
node-pre-gyp
ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.15063
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\tom.greenfield\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\adapt-cli\\node_modules\\node-pre-gyp\\bin\\node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\nodegit
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v8.8.1
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.38
Failed to execute 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\nodegit\build\Release\nodegit.node --module_name=nodegit --module_path=C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\adapt-cli\node_modules\nodegit\build\Release' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
[nodegit] ERROR - Could not finish install
[nodegit] ERROR - finished with error code: 1
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node lifecycleScripts/preinstall && node lifecycleScripts/install`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\tom.greenfield\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2017-10-27T13_22_11_020Z-debug.log