Thanks for such a great answer and concise history of the issues! At least we're newer than Raspberry Pi2 Jessie that I installed yesterday which is still at 0.10.29 :)
Playing with some code snippets I've found on-line, I'm starting to develop an appreciation for nodejs and think it'd be a way better choice for my newbie friend than python. Nodejs is very amenable to "cut-and-paste" programming where one finds an example that does something sorta like you want and then learn enough to modify it for your needs -- very newbie friendly. Node-red graphical "flow" programming is even more newbie friendly when starting with an idea and a blank page. On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 12:30:08 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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/3a11f217-2bf8-4236-baac-c87914fbf4d9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
