On 04/19/2013 12:57 PM, Ben Noordhuis wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm interested in porting nodejs to IA64, specifically OpenVMS. >> Would nodejs owners be interested in integrating the resulting patches >> (assuming the patches meet the qualifications described in the contributing >> guidelines). >> I realize this question also has to be asked of Google w/r/t/ V8, libUV as >> well as other, TBD parts of the kit. >> >> Cheers, >> jec > Are you backed by a company or is this a personal project? It's a personal project, in the sense that I'm not paid to do this. I/We have access to/support of HP VMS engineering. The sourceforge project is vms-ports. It's been underway for some time. I expect that this will be done using HP's Porting Center.
> I ask > because your first task would be to port V8 (and get it accepted > upstream + maintain it) and that's a massive undertaking, something > that is unlikely to succeed when it's just a side project. Agreed. The project does have a robust way of managing patches [*]. However, it would be best to try to get upstream to accept them. I will reach out to Google to see if they are interested. * via logical name search lists > V8 is essentially a JS to machine code compiler so you'd have to write > a backend that speaks IA64. Have a look at the code in e.g. > deps/v8/src/x64/ to get a taste of what that involves. So there's something there to look at. > Libuv is relatively trivial in comparison, that's probably no more > than a few days of work. Patches are welcome. Good. > Node.js itself should require only minimal changes; nearly all > platform-specific code lives in libuv. I got that impression. It looks like it's been aggressive about platform independence. To wit, I came across an interesting reference w/r/t/ excluding fork(); which will help w/ the VMS port. > FWIW, I'm working on a port of node.js to Mozilla's SpiderMonkey > engine with the express goal of supporting a wider range of > architectures and operating systems. > > I'm primarily targeting SPARC, POWER and IA64 and the operating > systems that run on them; AIX, HP-UX, Linux. Maybe OpenVMS should be > on that list, too. I hadn't considered it until now. I'm willing to help move that forward. I'm starting w/IA64, although Alpha should also be on that list. I really don't see a reason to try VAX. > If or when the project will be released is anybody's guess, however. > I'm working on it in my off hours right now and those are rare. Please consider my offer to help. Thank-you for your response! Cheers, jec -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
