Thoughts on a NodeJS packaging group

[Tom Hughes]

On 12/11/15 12:36, Robert Van Voorhees wrote:

> Regarding updating NodeJS -- there's a group called NodeSource that has
> been actively maintaining the latest versions of NodeJS in RPM format.
> Should we be leveraging their work, and incorporated that into the
> upstream repository, or do we need to go about it another way?  I've
> been running their repository for the last few months without any
> problems; however, I'll admit I'm using npm install instead of dnf
> install nodejs-* for all my packaging needs.

I'm not really sure what you mean... I mean we already have it packaged, 
it just needs updating. It's unlikely that a third party package that 
likely doesn't follow Fedora packaging guidelines will be a huge amount 
of help.

I haven't been involved in packaging nodejs itself, but I think the main 
issue is normally making sure that a compatible v8 is used.

Updating the npm stack is probably a bigger challenge.

Tom

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