automatically download geth binary

[mastilver]

Hi

I just created: https://github.com/mastilver/geth-bin

If this module depends on geth-bin then geth will be installed automatically and directly available
It's a weird feature, so I wanted to check with you what you think about it before sending you a PR

[tinybike]

Cool! Yes, I think that automatically downloading geth could be useful. It would be good if it could grab the latest version when it downloads -- maybe (getting a bit fancy here, but...) it could have a geth.checkForUpdates() function that downloads a new build if one exists.

I think for this to be useful, though, one thing it would also need to do is handle the initial account creation. I suspect that people downloading geth generally haven't set up their data directory yet!

[mastilver]

one thing it would also need to do is handle the initial account creation

Couldn't we use https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js to handle account creation

[kumavis]

@mastilver we're interested in a PR if you're still maintaining the project - thanks!

[tinybike]

Yes, I don't have time to write this at the moment, but would be more than happy to merge a PR :)