Thanks for the response. The pull request is here:
https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/6294 .
-Joshua Anderson


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:04 PM, A Random User <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to developing nodejs, though not programming it. I am in the
> process
> > of updating nodejs to support visual studio 2013. It's a three part
> update:
> >
> > 1. Apply upstream patch to gyp to bump support to VS 2013
> > 2. Update vcbuild.bat to look for VS 2013 and compile with it
> > 3.Update readme to mention support.
> >
> > I'm confused on the best way to update gyp. Should I just change the one
> > file reguired for VS 2013 support? It appears in the past gyp has been
> > bumped to a specific revision. If I should bump it to a revision, should
> I
> > jump it to the lowaest possible version (The commit where they added VS
> > 2013) or the latest version.
> >
> > Also, should I leave VS2012 as the default compiler, or should I set
>  VS2013
> > to be the default one?
> >
> > Thanks for the advice!
> >
> > -Joshua Andersom
>
> Bumps of bundled dependencies are almost always done by committers
> (e.g. me) because it's usually not feasible to audit the changes when
> submitted as a pull request by a third party (e.g. you).
>
> When you open your pull request, just mention in the description that
> it depends on a bump of gyp to revision X and me or someone else will
> take care of it.
>
> I'd opt for keeping VS2012 as the default for now, it arguably has the
> largest user base at this point.
>
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