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

[Jérémy Lal]

2015-09-24 14:59 GMT+02:00 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro>:

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> On 24/09/15 14:53, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > 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...
> >
>
>
> I saw comments in another bug tracker suggesting that some upstreams are
> not rushing into node-nan 2 as it is not a trivial change for them.
>
> I only reported this upstream today, so let's see how they respond.
>


Being an upstream node-nan user too, i can say that while it's not
completely trivial,
it's usually quickly done and depends linearly on the size of the project.
For the files in node-websocket, it IS trivial since they are copies of
projects that already
moved to nan 2. Expect a quick response :)

Jérémy
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