[Pkg-javascript-devel] backport nodejs to wheezy

[Jérémy Lal]

On 11/10/2013 09:47, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 11/05/13 17:46, Marcelo Jorge Vieira wrote:
>> Hi Jérémy,
>>
>> On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 23:35 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
>>> On 05/05/2013 22:45, Marcelo Jorge Vieira wrote:
>>>> Hi Jérémy,
>>>>
>>>> What do you think about backport nodejs to wheezy?
>>> When the migration from nodejs 0.6 to nodejs 0.10 is finished,
>>> all new packages will go to testing and be good candidates for backports.
>>>
>>> The current status is :
>>>
>>> * nodejs 0.10, libv8-3.14 are in experimental
>>> * node-gyp isn't but is not tested enough
>>> * i haven't set up a migration yet. Give me a few days...
>>>   Almost all modules will need to be updated, and all c++ addons
>>>   be moved to node-gyp instead of node-waf.
>>>
>>> However i don't think it is a good idea to backport npm, it is a
>>> lot of work and being mostly a development tool, people will probably
>>> better be using it in testing/sid.
>> thanks for the feedback ;)
>>
>>
>>> Of course, as usual, any help is welcome.
>> Yes, I will try it.
> 
> 
> I'm just wondering if anybody else thinks a wheezy-backports version of
> nodejs is feasible?
> 
> I've run it on wheezy and built my own packages (pegjs, jssip) on wheezy
> and all seems OK

Do you backport libv8 too ?

Jérémy.