Future of v8 and node in fedora
Hello fedora noders,
at first I want to thank you for great amount of work you did to get
node to fedora. Good job!
I am poking around nodejs and v8 for few months, and there are few
things... Is there a reason why do we have this old version of v8 in
fedora? I know that stable branch of node is using it. But 0.10.*
releases should run well also on newer v8. I started rewrite of v8.spec
to use gyp and new stable release of v8, once finished I will publish it
for review (since I am new to packaging this may take some time).
Why do we have stable release of node in fedora? I know its stable, but
we are devs distro should we have latest nodejs that is out there?
People are using 0.11 branch for development despite the fact that it is
not stable.
I am offering my help here with both v8 and/or node and its modules so
if you have too much packages feel free to add me as co-maintainer and I
will do my best so we can deliver great distro with latest nodejs and
modules.
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Tomas Hrcka
Software Engineer - Developer Experience