On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 8:19:13 AM UTC-5, Raphael wrote: > > > > On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 4:11:44 PM UTC+1, Michael Dawson wrote: >> >> >> >> 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]> 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. >> > That's great to hear! Thanks for the information and the work you're doing! > >> >> 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). >> > I've already found that. As we are as well using e500v2 (Freescale P2020) > we may want to run node.js on that platform too. > >> >> 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. >> >> > Is this really the right link? You mean I should ask questions to issue > 119? Or did you mean I should open new issues when having questions? >
Sorry cut and paste error on my part. The community is here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/nodejs/hYcfcHaAVNg/OtVqopLz20oJ You can ask general questions in the forum and is a good way to direct them to our IBM team. Opening a new issue in the github is also a good way to start specific discussions on ppc port. -- 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/a5f42347-41ad-45ce-898d-793f1976b330%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
