On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 8:48 AM Floh <[email protected]> wrote:

> > ...and I would strongly prefer not to have a bundled node at all.
>
> Hmm, I have the opposite opinion tbh, Node *should* be bundled, but
> shouldn't be added to the path (so that the bundled version doesn't collide
> with any globally installed version), and the Emscripten SDK shouldn't
> accidentially call any globally installed node version (only the bundled
> one).
>
> I'd prefer this because at work I'm seeing that projects often depend on
> older node/npm versions (at least there's nvm to easily switch between
> versions), but having Emscripten depend on a globally installed node
> version would only add to the confusion (and probably swamp the Emscripten
> team with bugs which would actually be node compatibility issues). Same
> with python2 vs python3.
>

*nod* that's sensible enough -- node has felt stabler than python during
the 2/3 switch, but node isn't free of back-compat problems too. :)

I'd be fine with bundling it for internal usage, as long as it's out of the
PATH.

-- brion

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