F23 Self Contained Change: io.js Technology Preview

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Josef Stribny <jstribny at redhat.com> wrote:
> Exactly my thoughts. Plus also introducing another v8 package because of
> that?

Having io.js' v8 as well should actually be a good thing for the
distribution.  Unlike node.js, which sticks with the same v8 released
with a particular version of Chrome forever, io.js only cares about
API/ABI compatbility and will accept updates from future Chrome
releases as long as they don't break that compatibility.

People have been complaining about our ancient v8 for years now, so
with this there will a much faster-moving one that will still retain
binary compatibility for the life of a Fedora release.

-T.C.