On 16/01/2013 12:00, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting David I. Lehn (2013-01-16 01:12:17) >> I would also like to see nodejs updated and have been working on it a >> bit. > > We all would like to see Nodejs updated. > > >> I'm kind of amazed that anyone would have to justify upgrading an >> ancient release because obviously it has to been done at some point. > > Noone has to justify. It will happen - that's not the point here. > > >> Sooner rather than later I say. My reasons are performance and newer >> APIs and docs: > > Performance is nice, but ranks as a feature (it is not a bug that > current packaged Nodejs is slower than has since proven possible). > > Changed API may break existing packages currently in Debian. I do agree > that those packages should then be upgraded as well, but "working code" > is of higher concern to me than "shiny code". > > > That said, I do appreciate your input, David: not commenting on the rest > simply means I have no comments on those parts - I expect it to be > valuable input for Jérémy. > > >> How can I help get this update to happen? I say getting ready to >> update to 0.10.x when it comes out is a good target. > > Sounds like it would be great if you could join the team and work > directly on (branches of) our canonical packaging git. > > But really I am the wrong one to judge that, as Jérémy is doing all the > hard work on these packages. > > @Jérémy: What do you say - you want a co-maintainer?
Sure, let's start by finding an agreement on how to deal with node-gyp. My concern is about node-gyp downloading what it needs to compile : that is not how i see the debian package of node-gyp should work. node-gyp should depend on (or recommend) nodejs-dev, which in turn depend on libv8-dev (and other needed *-dev packages). This means node-gyp in debian will only output an error if the engine version in package.json is different than the one currently available. Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
