@Ben Interested too!
2013/4/20 Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Jeffrey Chimene <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > Thanks. :-) I'll ping you when I have something that's stable enough > to boot into a REPL. I'm still working out the basic infrastructure, > like how to recreate the node's Buffer class with SpiderMonkey's API. > > -- > -- > 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. > > > -- -- 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.
