Quoting Jeroen Ooms (2019-01-29 20:11:20) > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:56 AM Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > Le mar. 29 janv. 2019 à 19:41, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen@berkeley.edu> a écrit : > >> > >> 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. > > OK I'll have a look. So the full libv8.so and libv8 headers will be in > libnode-dev now? Why not separate out an actual libv8-dev package as > part of the 'nodejs' source package, so we can install just libv8 > without all the node stuff? I believe you quoted the answer to your question. ;-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: signature