On 26/09/13 10:21, Tomas Hrcka wrote: > Hello fedora noders, > > at first I want to thank you for great amount of work you did to get > node to fedora. Good job! > > I am poking around nodejs and v8 for few months, and there are few > things... Is there a reason why do we have this old version of v8 in > fedora? I know that stable branch of node is using it. But 0.10.* > releases should run well also on newer v8. I started rewrite of v8.spec > to use gyp and new stable release of v8, once finished I will publish it > for review (since I am new to packaging this may take some time). > > Why do we have stable release of node in fedora? I know its stable, but > we are devs distro should we have latest nodejs that is out there? > People are using 0.11 branch for development despite the fact that it is > not stable. > > I am offering my help here with both v8 and/or node and its modules so > if you have too much packages feel free to add me as co-maintainer and I > will do my best so we can deliver great distro with latest nodejs and > modules. > Just very short: there is no need to put an updated v8.spec up for review (if you don't want to make a version to be installed in parallel to the older one).
Regarding using a development version of software foo in Fedora, I thought it's discouraged to do so. Sadly, I can't find the reference to it in the wiki. Especially, we need to take care not to break compatibility during updates, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy Matthias _______________________________________________ nodejs mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/nodejs
