[Pkg-javascript-devel] backport nodejs to wheezy

[Jérémy Lal]

On 11/10/2013 10:22, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 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?
> 

I didn't but i can't see a reason why it wouldn't work smoothly.

Jérémy.