On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Raphael <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm in the process of evaluating a server side technology to build a new > product from scratch. It must run on Linux, Win, OSX and on (Yocto-) Linux > running on self-made hardware: An embedded system using Freescale P5020 > PowerPC (and other CPUs out from that family). > > While I would really like to use Node.js, I'm quite a bit concerned about > the quality and availability of Node.js for PPC. I've searched the web and > found the relevant GitHub repos for V8 and node for PPC. I also found the > IBM node.js SDK (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/nodesdk/) but I > couldn't find any recent and reliable information about "current status" of > the PPC port. Also, as I don't know how to ask questions to the PPC-Node.js > guys, I'm writing to this mailing list. Is there anybody who can shed some > light on questions like: > > - Will ALL relevant PPC related patches of Node and V8 (I know, this is not > the V8 list, but V8 people may also read this list?) will be merged > upstream? Or will they be "forks" for ever? > - Is the current state of the PPC ports on GitHub production ready? (IBM > seems to have 'production ready' versions - but the also mention that they > send "most" patches to GitHub. How much is "most"?) > - What's your advice/opinion about relying on Node.js for PPC? If I start > programming with it today, it'd be nice if I have some degree of confidence > that it'l continue to work the next 10 years. (I think I would have that > confidence with Ruby on rails or Django/Python - can I have it for > Node.js/PPC as well?) > - Who out there is using Node.js on PPC? Is there a community? > > Any hints, advices, opinions, etc. are highly appreciated! > > Thanks, > Raphael
The PPC port was merged into upstream V8 about a week ago. I can't really comment on its quality or stability but io.js (can't speak for node.js) will probably roll out preliminary linux-ppc support once the PPC port makes it into a stable V8 release. I expect that will be in about a month or two from now. Some cooperation from IBM is necessary (mostly for the hardware for the continuous integration) but they were amenable to that, last time it came up. -- 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/CAHQurc8CXQZmwd080dwzQqoP05_szhJvMnjgQYuZA1CP%2B5dbiQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
