On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:56 AM Jérémy Lal <kapo...@melix.org> wrote: > > > > Le mar. 29 janv. 2019 à 19:41, Jeroen Ooms <jer...@berkeley.edu> a écrit : >> >> Is there another version of libv8 available on Debian? I'm willing to >> try to port it to a newer version of V8. The issue with libv8 has >> always been that Google refuses to define a stable API, and they do a >> new release every day (no joke). So it's very hard to program against >> that. >> >> That said, Fedora is now shipping v8 6.7.17 >> https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/v8 (in addition to >> https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/v8-314). So if Debian would >> ship a version of V8 with a similar version, I will try to update the >> R package to support this API. > > > Please read the full bug report, and TL;DR: > the best thing to do that i don't do because i lack time, is to package the > v8 version > that is in nodejs (10.15 at the moment, soon in testing). > > It will profit from the hard work upstream nodejs do to keep > ABI-compatibility across > nodejs versions, with the bonus of having security fixes backported.
OK I'll have a look. So the full libv8.so and libv8 headers will be in libnode-dev now? Why not separate out an actual libv8-dev package as part of the 'nodejs' source package, so we can install just libv8 without all the node stuff? -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel