[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/nodejs: bump version to 9.0.0

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Bark <martin at barkynet.com> writes:

Hi,

>> > +NODEJS_VERSION = 9.0.0
 >> 
 >> Thanks. I will not bump the version for 2017.11 as I'll release -rc1
 >> today. With 2018.02 becoming the next LTS, wouldn't it make more sense
 >> to move to 8.9.0 instead?
 >> 
 >> https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.9.0/

 > When we discussed this in the past it was decided to track the latest
 > version of nodejs.  This simplified buildroot to only support one version
 > of nodejs.  The release schedule of buildroot and nodejs don't really align
 > so what you're saying in practice means we would have to only track the LTS
 > versions of node (the even version numbers).

What I'm saying is that there is a tradeoff. If we move to the 9.x
version for the 2018.02 release then we'll have to migrate to 10.x quite
soon during the LTS period to get bug/security fixes - Which isn't
really nice.

We may move to 9.x for the 2018.05 release if there's a good reason for
it (I wouldn't know, I don't use nodejs), but again it means extra
effort for the LTS as fixes from master cannot simply be cherry picked -
E.G. you haven't submitted any nodejs version bumps for the 2017.02.x
series.

Do these odd non-LTS releases bring a lot of new features making it
worth the extra effort?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard