Upgrade node-gyp to v.8.0.0 to prevent deprecation errors

[silkfire]

npm/run-script currently uses an older version of node-gyp that in turn has a dependency on the deprecated package request. By upgrading to the newly released version 8.0.0 of node-gyp (which now uses fetch instead), we can get rid of many deprecation messages stemming from any packages dependent on run-script.

[wraithgar]

Because our support contract in npm includes >=10, we can not update node-gyp to v 8 until we drop v10 support.

node-gyp@8 requires >= 10.12.0 of nodejs because it uses the recursive flag for mkdir:

https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/blob/5f1a06c50f3b0c3d292f64948f85a004cfcc5c87/lib/configure.js#L75

[hildjj]

node-gyp claims to support node >=10.12.0:

https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/blob/161c2353ef5b562f4acfb2fd77608fcbd0800fc0/package.json#L37

Seems like we could file a bug there to remove the use of the recursive flag for mkdir.