From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Bark Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 09:17:04 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/nodejs: bump version to 9.0.0 In-Reply-To: <87bmkfy1cy.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <20171106102049.14681-1-martin@barkynet.com> <87k1z3y5f8.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <87bmkfy1cy.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi, On 6 November 2017 at 13:37, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Bark writes: > > Hi, > > >> > +NODEJS_VERSION = 9.0.0 > >> > >> Thanks. I will not bump the version for 2017.11 as I'll release -rc1 > >> today. With 2018.02 becoming the next LTS, wouldn't it make more sense > >> to move to 8.9.0 instead? > >> > >> https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.9.0/ > > > When we discussed this in the past it was decided to track the latest > > version of nodejs. This simplified buildroot to only support one > version > > of nodejs. The release schedule of buildroot and nodejs don't really > align > > so what you're saying in practice means we would have to only track the > LTS > > versions of node (the even version numbers). > > What I'm saying is that there is a tradeoff. If we move to the 9.x > version for the 2018.02 release then we'll have to migrate to 10.x quite > soon during the LTS period to get bug/security fixes - Which isn't > really nice. > > We may move to 9.x for the 2018.05 release if there's a good reason for > it (I wouldn't know, I don't use nodejs), but again it means extra > effort for the LTS as fixes from master cannot simply be cherry picked - > E.G. you haven't submitted any nodejs version bumps for the 2017.02.x > series. > > Do these odd non-LTS releases bring a lot of new features making it > worth the extra effort? > They can do, it varies. It really just depends what major changes are queued up. Major releases can include breaking changes e.g. API changes I can see arguments for following only LTS, only latest or both. I guess all i need is a final decision to be made. We don't have to solve this right now. How about i submit an 8.9.0 patch. Thanks Martin > > -- > Bye, Peter Korsgaard > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: