From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:34:27 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/iojs: new package In-Reply-To: <1421278696-15122-1-git-send-email-jkrause@posteo.de> References: <1421278696-15122-1-git-send-email-jkrause@posteo.de> Message-ID: <20150115093427.0b5118b2@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear J?rg Krause, On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:38:16 +0100, J?rg Krause wrote: > io.js is a fork of Node.js. This package is mainly based on the nodejs > package, except for the patches. > > io.js is currently marked as unstable and there is no stable release for now. > > Signed-off-by: J?rg Krause Immediate question that comes to mind: is the code base diverging from Node.js ? Do we need two separate packages ? Does this fork has a chance of becoming widely used ? I'm a bit concerned by the fact of having two separate packages for basically the same thing. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com