On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 7:02 PM Elliott Sales de Andrade
<quantum.analyst(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Let's try this again, but CC'ing the package owners.
On 2019-02-17 9:12 p.m., Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for resurrecting a long-dead thread, but a few things happened recently:
> 1. v8 was just retired last week or so,
> 2. R-V8 just ported itself from v8-314 to v8 LTS 6/7.
>
> Currently, R-V8 supports both v8-314 and v8, but as the latter fixes several
downstream package issues, it is the recommended build target. I expect that eventually
they will stop supporting 314 as well. This leaves me in a bit of a pickle as it does not
bundle v8 and neither I nor upstream have any plans to build it ourselves.
>
>> For all of these same reasons, the Node.js SIG opted to carry a bundled
>> copy of v8 in that package as well. I think we should move to have v8
>> considered to be a copylib for all reasonable purposes within Fedora.
>
> In Debian, the nodejs package provides a stable *shared* v8 library, and the
recommended install is against libnode-dev. Unfortunately, in Fedora, while nodejs-devel
provides v8.h, it does *not* provide any shared library.
>
> Is this something we can also do in Fedora, i.e., split out a nodejs-libs
subpackage, or similar?
>
I've been keeping the Node.js packages in Fedora alive, but on
life-support, for a couple years now. I don't have the cycles to look
into a significant rework of how they're designed. If you have ideas
for how to do what you're asking, I will happily review a pull request
to
http://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nodejs