[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#799656: NaN 2.x issue

[Daniel Pocock]

On 24/09/15 14:53, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> 2015-09-24 14:42 GMT+02:00 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro
> <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>>:
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>     This is failing because node-nan 2.x is now in unstable
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>     I've filed a bug upstream requesting support for node-nan 2.x
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> This is the right thing to do.
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>     Maybe both old and new versions of node-nan will be needed in stretch?
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> This isn't ! The idea is to move forward to nodejs 4 / nan 2.
> Maintaining legacy modules is more time-consuming than porting them
> to nan 2.x - a task that i can do but that is best done by upstream.
> 
> Since the two files built using node-gyp and node-nan have been taken
> from node-ws, and since node-ws has already been ported to node-nan 2,
> i suggest to be patient...
> 


I saw comments in another bug tracker suggesting that some upstreams are
not rushing into node-nan 2 as it is not a trivial change for them.

I only reported this upstream today, so let's see how they respond.