[openstack-dev] [Horizon] Less compiler dependency

Matthias Runge mrunge at redhat.com
Tue Dec 10 21:40:53 UTC 2013


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On 12/10/2013 07:04 PM, Jordan OMara wrote:

> 
> I'm a bit newer to this conversation than some, but I'm not sure
> what exactly the "NodeJS packaging nightmare" is? Isn't it already
> packaged for many major distributions?
> 
I might speak for Fedora here. We had a long history in getting
Node.js in. We have strict policies, what may be included and what is
prohibited.
- - bundling other libraries is forbidden
- - static linking is forbidden

For example node.js used to bundle httplib, libssl, and a few others
as well. For a long time, it was nearly impossible to build it using
dynamic linking.

It introduces its own packaging system, thus doesn't update packages
via the distribution repositories. Releases are quite often, even
major releases. Introducing major releases of a software in a release
cycle of a distribution is not wanted at all.

More details are in the original package review
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815018

Matthias
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