On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Mark Topinka <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi V8 people - I am considering embedding V8 in a programming project. > Which version would you recommend I use? It seems unfortunately like there > is very little publicly available sample code out there that works with > version 4 of the V8 API (even a fair bit of the code on the official v8 > "embedders guide" does not compile), so it's making learning the ropes a bit > difficult... but I'm getting there. What is the medium-term outlook for > version 4.x - are we talking years until it's relatively stable and mature, > or is it nearly ready to go? On the one hand I would hate to base my > project around a version of v8 that is going to be deprecated in the near > future... on the other hand I would hate to base my code around a version of > v8 that is still early in the development cycle with perhaps many hidden > bugs still to be discovered and worked out. Any words of wisdom would be > appreciated. Thanks. -Mark
V8 branches are tied to Chrome/Chromium releases (3.28 -> Chrome 38, 3.29 -> Chrome 39, 3.30 -> Chrome 40, 4.1 -> Chrome 41, 4.2 -> Chrome 42, etc.) and gets support and fixes for the lifetime of the Chrome release, which I believe is six weeks. After that, the branch is more or less abandoned; it may see the occasional bug fix but that quickly tapers off. If you want advice on what version of V8 to use: pick the one that ships with the current Chrome stable and be prepared to upgrade frequently. The V8 API can change between releases and may require updates to your code. Caveat emptor: the last few upgrades have been pretty smooth for us (io.js) but there was a lot of churn in the ~1.5 years before that. YMMV. Hope that helps! -- -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
