I think you should execute the code depending on the node-version.
something like feature detection does not need here since we knows the
changes from 0.6 to 0.8
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Aleksey V Zapparov <i...@member.fsf.org>wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:35:15 +0100
> Diogo Resende <drese...@thinkdigital.pt> wrote:
>
> > I have a module (node-rack) to abstract the cluster module. It was
> > built for 0.6 and I want to be able to support 0.8 too but not
> > dropping 0.6 support. I noticed for example that `kill()` was renamed
> > to `destroy()`. I think this can be easy to detect but what about
> > events? `death`event was changed to `exit`.
>
> you can subscribe to multiple events.
>
> > Is there a way to know what events an object supports or should I
> > just check the node version (using process.version.node) and do my
> > changes from there?
> >
> > I would prefer the first option as it's similar to feature detection.
> > This way I would just check for available methods and events and use
> > the preferred (and available) ones.
>
> Alternatively, yes you ca do it the way we are dealing with different
> browsers: have a map of internal representation to actual one. In
> general it can be represented as:
>
> ``` javascript
> function get_node_ver() {
> // some decisions and return as `06` for `0.6.x`, etc.
> }
>
> var EVENTS = {
> '06': {
> exit: 'death',
> // ...
> },
> '08': {
> exit: 'exit',
> // ...
> }
> };
>
>
> EVENTS = EVENTS[get_node_ver()];
> ```
>
>
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