Re: [nodejs] Re: API changes from 0.6 to 0.8

[Tim Dickinson]

  The goal is to have a module compatible with both 0.6 and 0.8, not one 
 for each version.


At some point you will have to. No one writes code for version 0.4, the 
same should now be true for version 0.6. You should encourage the uses of 
new build's of node. The cluster module was brand new in 0.6 and from what 
I understand the api is frozen for 0.8 to account for stability.

Just pulling this from a gist.
The v0.6 release family will continue to see releases for critical 
bugfixes and security issues through the end of 2012. However, it will not 
be the main focus of the core team's attention.

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Re: [nodejs] Re: API changes from 0.6 to 0.8

[Diogo Resende]

The goal is to have a module compatible with both 0.6 and 0.8, not one for each 
version.

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Diogo Resende


On Friday, June 22, 2012 at 2:37 , Dominic Tarr wrote:

 you can set what version of node a module is for in the package.json
 
 engines: { node : 0.6 }
 
 for example. this does mean you'll have two versions of the code,
 feature detection may be easier to maintain. you choice.
 
 see `npm help json`
 
 
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Roly Fentanes roly...@gmail.com 
 (mailto:roly...@gmail.com) wrote:
  I'm in a similar situation with a module I wrote. And I think I'll just
  write a note in the readme specifying which version should be installed for
  node v0.6.x.
  
  
  On Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:35:15 AM UTC-7, Diogo Resende wrote:
   
   Hi,
   
   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`.
   
   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.
   
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