On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Johan Bergström <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
GYP is a relatively simple project. It would be possible to maintain it and V8's GYP-based build in perpetuity with only moderate effort. As to whether that's a good course of action, that's a separate discussion but at least it's an option. -- 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/CAHQurc829MjwEPbrH0QSHmceZF%2B9%3DhN0XR_fUok00wzH19T%2BmA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
