Is there another version of libv8 available on Debian? I'm willing to
try to port it to a newer version of V8. The issue with libv8 has
always been that Google refuses to define a stable API, and they do a
new release every day (no joke). So it's very hard to program against
that.
That said, Fedora is now shipping v8 6.7.17
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/v8 (in addition to
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/v8-314). So if Debian would
ship a version of V8 with a similar version, I will try to update the
R package to support this API.
Please read the full bug report, and TL;DR:
the best thing to do that i don't do because i lack time, is to package the v8 version
that is in nodejs (10.15 at the moment, soon in testing).
It will profit from the hard work upstream nodejs do to keep ABI-compatibility across
nodejs versions, with the bonus of having security fixes backported.
Jérémy