[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] package/nodejs: Add version 5.2.0

["Jörg Krause" <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>]

On Mo, 2015-12-14 at 22:10 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Thomas, All,
> 
> On 2015-12-14 21:43 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:24:30 +0000, Martin Bark wrote:
> > > I'm not sure the answer to that.??What i can say is that all four
> > > are
> > > getting maintained.??Also, according to https://github.com/nodejs
> > > /LTS
> > > node.js 0.10.x will be maintained all the way until October 2016.
> > > 
> > > I see two logical approaches for buildroot:
> > > 
> > > 1) Support all four in buildroot because node.js support all four
> > > 2) Only Support the 4.x and 5.x because they are the current LTS
> > > and
> > > Stable releases (i.e. the ones on the front page of
> > > https://nodejs.org)
> > > 
> > > Personally I'd vote for 2) because it simplifies things.
> > > 
> > > What are your thoughts?
> > 
> > I'm fine with option (2) as well, but do we have other NodeJS users
> > that would like to see 0.10.x and 0.12.x being kept?
> > 
> > Is there any issue for users of 0.10.x/0.12.x to migrate to 4.2 or
> > 5.2 ?
> 
> We do have the various version of nodejs, because:
> 
> ? - 4.2.x needs gcc >= 4.8 and armv6+
> ? - 0.12.x needs armv6+
> ? - 0.10.x has not requirement
> 
> Going back in our history:
> 
> ? - we had nodejs-0.10
> ? - someone proposed to bump to 0.12
> ? - someone else wanted to keep 0.10 around because of armv6+
> ????requirement
> ? - so we added 0.12, and kept 0.10
> ? - the story repeated itself with 4.2.x
> 
> So, I think we have a few options here:
> 
> ?1) keep all the three existing versions, add 5.2
> ?2) keep 0.10 and 0.12, replace 4.2 with 5.2
> ?3) keep 0.10, ditch 0.12, replace 4.2 with 5.2
> ?4) dith 0.10 and 0.12, replace 4.2 with 5.2
> 
> I would lean toward either 2 or 3.
> 
> 3 is IMHO the best solution: 5.2 is the best choice when all the
> conditions are met; 0.10 is the fallback, maybe not the optimum in
> case 0.12 would have fit, but since that's a fallback I don't think
> it matters much...
> 

As 4.x is a LTS release I would not drop it for the 5.x release.

I would keep all the three version we have - they are all still
maintained and v0.12 and v4 are both even LTS releases.

New versions are often not compatible with older versions of Node.js -
it's similiar to Lua.

So I would lean toward 1.

Best regards
J?rg Krause