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

[Daniel Pocock]

On 24/09/15 14:58, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> 2015-09-24 14:53 GMT+02:00 Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org
> <mailto:kapouer at melix.org>>:
> 
>     2015-09-24 14:42 GMT+02:00 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro
>     <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>>:
> 
> 
> 
>         This is failing because node-nan 2.x is now in unstable
> 
>         I've filed a bug upstream requesting support for node-nan 2.x
> 
> 
>     This is the right thing to do.
>      
> 
>         Maybe both old and new versions of node-nan will be needed in
>         stretch?
> 
> 
>     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...
> 
> 
> An even better solution is to package
> https://github.com/websockets/bufferutil
> and
> https://github.com/websockets/utf-8-validate
> and depend on them.
> This will benefit node-ws and node-websocket
> 

I only uploaded node-websocket because it is used by the latest JsSIP code

https://github.com/versatica/JsSIP/blob/master/package.json

I'm also trying to upload JSCommunicator, JsSIP and the rest of the
dependency hierarchy (see my other recent node-* uploads) to
jessie-backports where node-nan 2 is not present and the build failure
doesn't occur.

Can anybody from the JsSIP team comment on this?  How do you feel about
having node-nan 2.x in the dependency hierarchy?  Will you continue
using node-websocket or would you possibly use node-ws[1] instead?
Using node-ws instead of node-websocket will reduce the number of
packages we have to keep track of in Debian.

Regards,

Daniel


1. https://github.com/websockets/ws