On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM Dan McDonald < [email protected]> wrote:
> I'm still in the spin-down process of a set of Ms&As so I'm not sure under > whose name I'd register my company, or if they'd let me contribute as an > individual. > Well, you'll have to figure that out obviously, and it's unrelated to how you submit your patches: just putting them up for download somewhere doesn't avoid the official authorship question. At any rate we'll need a corporate or personal CLA submission. > > Patches generally land on the main branch. Backmerges to old branches > (such as 13.6) would need special justification. > > > Node took the illumos-only patch for their import of 13.6, which was kind > and supportive of them. I'm not expecting V8 to accept backports. I hope > to have illumos changes upstream before the NEXT time Node updates their V8 > revision. > That's fine. Your previous message sounded like "depending on a modern V8" was a limitation/concern, to which I wanted to reply that it's not, on the contrary. > > > Note that illumos is officially unsupported by the core V8 team, i.e. it's > only supported by interested community members such as yourself. > > > I noticed this in BUILD.gn: > > ` # TODO(infra): Add support for qnx, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, > and solaris.` > > Do you support Oracle Solaris? We aren't THAT much different from our > closed-source peer descendant. > No, none of these are officially supported. That comment is ~11 years old, which gives some indication of the priority of (and demand for) doing anything for these OSs. We could probably just drop it to reflect reality. -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/CAKSzg3Rf9V6UWENwWYUeKedz9_A%2Ba4ikuo%2BD9xnkZaagTOVjRw%40mail.gmail.com.
