4.6.2 is easy to build from source Robert. It just takes a little bit of time to compile directly on a beaglebone is all. 2-3 hours, is all.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Over the weekend, there was a few requests to bump our version of nodejs. > > So everyone knows, the v0.12.x is going eol shortly: > > https://github.com/nodejs/LTS/blob/master/README.md > > So i started looking at all our default nodejs packages and started > patching them to support 3 versions of nodejs (v0.12.x/v4.x/v6.x). > For those that don't know, we do a pre-build on all npm packages, so > the end user doesn't see the build delay caused by "npm install > xyz"... > > Originally i thought v0.12.x -> v4.x was going to be a little painful, > but that turned out pretty easy, and v6.x is coming along pretty > good.. So here is my current rebuild status of our nodejs packages: > > cloud9 (1 massive package) (100%) > bonescript (1 npm package) (100%) > bone101 (2 npm package) (100%) > node-red (4 npm package) (90%-went home knowing what i need to finish this) > google-iot (1 npm package) (not started) > wificonfig (1 npm package) (not started) > > I'm thinking now to just drop v4.x, i just did that as i'm a little > conservative, and therefor switching next sunday's image to v6.x > nodejs by default (20161120).. > > For those that are still using v0.12.x, i'm not going to drop you.. > You can see how the deb package works here: > > https://github.com/rcn-ee/repos/blob/master/bb-bone101/ > suite/jessie/debian/postinst#L19-L52 > > (i'll probably drop the v4.x) > > So "as-long" as the package still builds, we'll push updates. > > Thoughts? > > 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/CAOCHtYjTx%2BkaCjkA5UxfFE%2BO% > 3DCJE6FS5JjqokMSSuEkuGiBxrg%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CALHSORpHDXLZ9Gt_zxEY%3Dj96hbA9D6Q%3DLK7FE6wKQT2oVXo_uA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
