[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#799656: NaN 2.x issue
Jérémy Lal
kapouer at melix.org
Thu Sep 24 15:21:11 UTC 2015
2015-09-24 16:15 GMT+02:00 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro>:
>
>
> On 24/09/15 15:16, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2015-09-24 14:59 GMT+02:00 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro
> > <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>>:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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>
> > > <mailto: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 :)
> >
>
> Will you be putting node-nan 2 into jessie-backports as well? Or will I
> need to keep a legacy version of node-websocket there?
>
I'm not really used to backport... the problem is that it's going to break
all
other packages in backport as well (since there is little chance theyre
already
compatible) ?
node-ws
node-leveldown
node-expat
node-websocket
node-stringprep
node-iconv
node-srs
are potentially concerned.
Jérémy.
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