Issue

needle is a HTTP client library that node-pre-gyp uses to download binaries. The version of node-pre-gyp we depended on (0.12.0) depended on an old version of needle that has this bug: tomas/needle#312 - it broke with Node 12.

For users with the request module available, this problem wasn't noticed. But in greenfield installations of npm install osrm, the following error was being encountered:

> [email protected] install /project/node_modules/osrm
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build=false || ./scripts/node_install.sh

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp ERR! install error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: bad download

Updating node-pre-gyp upgrades the needle dependency, and fixes the above problem.

Tasklist

• CHANGELOG.md entry (How to write a changelog entry)
• update relevant Wiki pages
• add tests (see testing documentation
• review
• adjust for comments
• cherry pick to release branch