On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 8:00:06 PM UTC+1, 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. > That sounds promising
> > 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. > Ok, thanks for these information! I really appreciate that. It sounds like there is some hope that (upstream) node/io.js will be available for PPC sometime soon... In that case, I'm going to test the current PPC-forks on a Freescale P5040 on Linux - hopeuflly it'll work out of the box ;-) -- 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/147b6c79-3edf-4a2b-9130-824b42dd0b22%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
