[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#904274: Bug#904274: nodejs: Debian nodejs is not ABI-compatible with upstream nodejs

[Jérémy Lal]

All other things being clear...

2018-07-22 20:30 GMT+02:00 Elana Hashman <ehashman at debian.org>:
>
> TLDR; the pratical solution is to promote compilation of addons - which is
>> *straightforward* on debian/ubuntu/fedora and derivatives
>> (you just need to explain which development packages must be installed).
>>
>
> This is fair suggestion, but I think that there is significantly more lift
> to put this into motion. To accomplish this, I believe we'd have to go
> through the following steps:
>
> 1) Convince developers (upstream or downstream) to package their native
> dependencies for Debian
> 2) Sponsor native dep uploads to Debian
> 3) Convince end users to install and depend on the version in Debian
>
> 3) is going to be tough, because many folks who use Debian for development
> do not necessarily target a Debian production environment.
>

You lost me a little here.
>From what i understand, there are only two general solutions:
1.a build from source at install time
1.b build from source in an OS package (which is later distributed as
binary, or not)
2. distribute a contained (be it statically compiled or smarter solutions
like flatpak), heavy, blob

In-between will break at some point, in unpredictable ways...
Will it not ?

Jérémy
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