[Pkg-javascript-devel] Status of libv8?

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 01:46:13PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> Le ven. 18 janv. 2019 à 13:04, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> a écrit :
> > >
> > > Possible solutions (besides not using it at all):
> > > - bundle it - nodejs bundles it
> > > - change nodejs to build its v8 as a shared lib, and provide it
> > > it makes sense because upstream nodejs do all the work of keeping ABI
> > > stability,
> > > backporting security fixes, choosing the right version, and so on.
> > > - take over maintenance and distribute it independently of nodejs
> >
> > This sounds like a pretty sensible solution.  I see you and Jonas are
> > also uploaders for nodejs.  It would be really great if you could do
> > this.
> >
> Which one ?

I'd prefer

 - change nodejs to build its v8 as a shared lib, and provide it                                                                                                                    
   it makes sense because upstream nodejs do all the work of keeping ABI                                                                                                              
   stability,

I admit I do not fully understand what you mean by

 - bundle it - nodejs bundles it

(sounds similar to what you write above.

I think the "take over maintenance and distribute it" has no real future
considering that an RC bug in libv8 did not even received an answer.  I
guess the reason for this is that you have other things to play with. ;-)

> Also i won't upload new nodejs versions until it goes to testing, of course.

What about experimental for the moment?

Kind regards

      Andreas.


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