On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 2:00:06 PM UTC-5, Ben Noordhuis wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Raphael <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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. >
Contributing back the PPC port is a multi-step process so what is in the google V8 repositories is not yet complete. The patch covering the next step is being reviewed in this issue https://codereview.chromium.org/866843003/ which includes an overview of the remaining steps. Our goal is to get all of our changes for v8 into the google repositories. As we work to contribute our ports back, the repositories for node (https://github.com/andrewlow/node) and v8 (https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc) are the source for our production builds to which we apply some small tweaks such as adding additional support for problem determination tools. In terms of support for embedded PowerPC chips, there is some work going in the community (for example issue https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc/issues/119). There is a community here: https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc/issues/119 where questions will go directly to the IBM Node/V8 team (including myself). If you have any problems accessing that or submitting questions there, just respond in this thread and I'll give you my direct contact info. -- 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/8a2339c6-f0f2-4f78-9b9c-8aa3cd4441a0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
