[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#692312: Bug#692312:

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:09:42PM -0500, Rick Waldron wrote:
>    It's strange to me this is even an issue that's being argued, I would
>    assume that a Debian package maintainer would be responsible enough to
>    keep up with the latest stable releases of whatever they have taken on to
>    maintain.
>    Back in the real-world, the biggest problem is that 0.6 and 0.8 use
>    completely different build systems, replacing waf with gyp (both for
>    building node and native modules). I'm sure you can appreciate and respect
>    the depth of this problem alone.
>    Please review the changes (published 6 months ago):
>    [1]https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6-and-v0.8

Just read through these -- there are some seriously breaking changes
new upstream releases of our node modules must be writing against this
API, I'd argue keeping nodejs back holds our packaged node apps pretty
badly.

I mean, literally anything that touches the filesystem ...

>    Rick
> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6-and-v0.8

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Fondly,
  Paul

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