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Updating node from version 10

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From: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
To: Daniel Gerber <dg <at> atufi.org>
Cc: 34526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34526: Updating node.js
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:50:41 +0100

Daniel Gerber <dg <at> atufi.org> writes:

> Notes on v11.10.0:
> - it does support openssl <at> 1.1.1
> - it ships with libuv 1.26.0 (1.24.0 in guix)
> - some previously bundled deps are absent from tarball
> - NODE_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP is a no-op / always defined
>
> There is an issue with the alternative http parser, `llhttp`. The
> choice of parser is at runtime, and one compile flag,
> --shared-http-parser, configures both. Building fails with:

> [snip]

> ../src/http_parser_adaptor.h:5:21: fatal error: llhttp.h: No such
> file or directory
> ```
>
> AFAIU, either llhttp has to be made a separate package and listed
> in inputs, or http-parser linked statically. Or should the missing
> -I../deps/llhttp/include argument be passed here somehow -- maybe
> patching node.gypi?

It seems that llhttp includes a build step for generating C-files using
TypeScript, making it a non-starter for proper packaging in Guix.

See https://github.com/nodejs/llhttp/issues/14 for more details, but
sadly no solution.

>
> I have not tried to build 10.15.1(LTS), which presumably has the
> same issues as in #32095.
>
> Also, should previous version branches (8.x, 9.x) be kept in guix?

As long as they are still supported by upstream, I see no issue with
this. The 8.x LTS is still maintained through the end of 2019.

I am not sure the 9.X series is still supported. If not, it might make
more sense to remove it instead of updating it.

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