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

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

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...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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