[Nix-dev] Help with PR: libuv update

[Rok Garbas]

i'm not that familiar with node ecosystem, but maybe we should have a
set of node packages per node version like we do with python, ruby,
etc...

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Tobias Pflug <tobias.pflug at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for some help with my PR which updates libuv to the most recent version:
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14973
>
> I want to introduce nodejs 6.0.0 which needs libuv 1.9.0 and I am blocked by this. The PR will always fail with travis because nox-review needs too long. I tried it locally where some (very outdated) nodejs packages will fail during node-gyp build.
>
> I have already proposed that the various nodejs libraries that we maintain should be removed and tools should be separate packages. I already started with a PR that extracts npm2nix and more will follow.
>
> Would it thus be OK to go ahead and merge the libuv update? If not what is the alternative?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> - Tobi
>
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