[Pkg-javascript-devel] backport nodejs to wheezy

[Daniel Pocock]

On 11/10/13 10:20, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> 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 ?

Just looking at the system where I did this, I notice it is not pure wheezy

It has a version of libv8 depending on libc >= 2.14 - I simply pulled
the packages selectively from testing some months ago

Has anybody tried a build of libv8 in a pure wheezy system?