On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are the nodejs and npm for ARM versions numbered differently? or are they > really this far behind the x86 versions? > > on Ubuntu 32-bit 16.04: > nodejs -v > v4.2.6 > > From what I gather, I'm new at the nodejs stuff, 4.4.3 is the "current" > stable LTS version. I've no appreciation of the consequences of these > version differences beyond some feature used in sample code not being > available in the version I'm trying it on :( > > npm -v > 3.5.2 > For awhile 'nodejs' was stagnant (0.8.x/0.10.x era) then it got forked around (0.12.x) and io.js came out, then io.js merged with nodejs... yada yada things are moving fast now... https://github.com/nodejs/LTS#lts_schedule ReleaseLTS StartMaintenance StartLTS End v0.10 (current) 2015-10-01 2016-10-01 v0.12 (current) 2016-04-01 2017-04-01 v4.2.0 2015-10-01 2017-04-01 2018-04-01 v.Next 2016-10-01 2018-04-01 For beagleboard.org we've moved from 0.10.x (which we shipped in wheezy) to 0.12.x in jessie just in the last month or to. We were unable to do the full jump to v4.x at the time.. By mid summer (2016) i'd like us to be getting things read to move to 'v4.x' as 'stretch' will ship with that (unless they jump to the new v6.x lts released this week).. While "npm" is a separate project bundled with nodejs.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYisXLA94GwDk9QSMKs8o%3DD9NGDJaSvSf6qT0%2B-X5uGzqQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
