[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/iojs: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jan 15 08:34:27 UTC 2015


Dear Jörg Krause,

On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:38:16 +0100, Jörg Krause wrote:
> io.js is a fork of Node.js. This package is mainly based on the nodejs
> package, except for the patches.
> 
> io.js is currently marked as unstable and there is no stable release for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <jkrause at posteo.de>

Immediate question that comes to mind: is the code base diverging from
Node.js ? Do we need two separate packages ? Does this fork has a
chance of becoming widely used ? I'm a bit concerned by the fact of
having two separate packages for basically the same thing.

Thanks,

Thomas
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