It's pretty clear that Google is moving away and effectively abandoning Gyp at the end of this year. That means that everything within chromium (v8 and zlib is the only stuff that would affect node, right?) will be built by gn. Reading their roadmap (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/Nq0AjcoEtlg/OuMlVARTZo4J), there's some overlap between the build systems - but build files and what supports what will change down the road.
Since the node ecosystem uses gyp, I thought it at least would be relevant to have a discussion about this. I'm not suggesting to switch, nor semi-maintain gyp as google drops it off its radar; but I've at least searched for more information in this regard. The last mention I saw within the node ecosystem was a reply from Ryan Dahl found here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nodejs/Nq0AjcoEtlg/OuMlVARTZo4J (not sure why he refers to gn as cancelled though). It's somewhat unfortunate timing as "1.0" is stabilising, but it's better to at least see what node lead thinks about it since it has a pretty wide effect. -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/ee7b7cf3-4c16-4388-add7-74c106a2196c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
