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Fallback to compile addon from source silently when pre-compiled addon is not available #278
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With pre-compile addon, it's likely that we miss uploading the addon for one or two platforms when publishing npm package. The package could build native addon from source when the addon is not available on GCP, but we should not print out error message which confuses user.
node-pre-gyp provides an option
node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
which silently fallback to compile addon from source when it fails to download from GCP.This change is