[geomoose-psc] GeoMoose Supported NodeJS Vesion(s)?

[Jim Klassen]

On 11/13/2017 03:53 PM, Jim Klassen wrote:
> I am trying to come up with a policy for which nodejs versions we
> officially support for the *build* toolchain.  My general thoughts are
> either current LTS (8.9.1 now) or current and previous LTS (now 6.9.x). 
> The benefits to two versions is it gives us and others more leeway when
> to update things. The benefit to one version is that is likely what we
> are testing in practice and it can simplify the build scripts.
>
> The nodejs release schedule is here [1]:
> Node 8.x became LTS on 2017-10-31 and will be supported until 2019-12.
> Node 6.x became LTS on 2016-10-18 and will be supported until 2019-4.
> Node 4.x became LTS on 2015-10-1 and will be supported until 2018-4. 
> (We made some efforts to support this version at one point, but it has
> not been tested in a long time by me and probably doesn't currently work
> with GeoMoose).
>
> I also point out that 8.9.1 doesn't build out of the box on Ubuntu 14.04
> because the gcc version is not new enough.  I'm pretty sure Jessie and
> 16.04 are ok with 8.9.1.
>
> So how do people feel about supporting:
>
> A) Current LTS version of nodejs only.
>
>   or
>
> B) Current and previous LTS versions of nodejs.
>
>
> (Note: the demo server is still on Ubuntu 14.04 due to MapScript not
> being in Ubuntu 16.04.  Of course GeoMoose 3 doesn't care about
> MapScript, but we are still hosting GeoMoose 2.9 demo which does.  This
> could easily be split up so it isn't the end of the world, just where
> we're at now.)
>
> [1] https://github.com/nodejs/Release
>

BTW: Node 8 is a lot faster than Node 6 at building GeoMoose (2m8s vs
3m4s for me).