F23 Self Contained Change: io.js Technology Preview

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:56 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth
<tchollingsworth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why are we even bothering with this when io.js is merging back into
>> node.js so from what I can see is that io.js won't really be around
>> for much longer
>
> That's exactly why we're bothering with it.  Everything in it will be
> in the nodejs package someday.  Why not get ready now?

For the benefit of those not reading the other thread, I might add
that io.js also adds support for the PowerPC architecture.  That will
make it the only provider of /usr/bin/node on that platform.

-T.C.