[node-dev] Re: Version 0.8.6 (Stable)

2012-08-07 Thread R i S
well done! I know you guys are in the thick of it, and probably can't see the wood for the trees, but- I would suggest, NodeJS has a massive following in the x86, x64 area, You probably have more (admittedly end-user types - not developers) people interested in the ARM arena. V8 needs to be

Re: [node-dev] Re: Version 0.8.6 (Stable)

2012-08-07 Thread Nathan Rajlich
I would like to get linux-arm binaries up at some point, but they would need to work on as many ARM devices as possible, and as Tim Caswell says, portable arm binaries are an oxymoron. That said, if a copy of node compiled for ARMv5 processors is the lowest common denominator for ARM devices (I'm

[node-dev] Re: Version 0.8.6 (Stable)

2012-08-07 Thread Bry
If the binary package is an experimental feature, why was it introduced in an even numbered release (stable)? On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 3:06:36 PM UTC-4, Isaac Schlueter wrote: 2012.08.07, Version 0.8.6 (Stable) This is the first release to include binary distributions for all

[node-dev] Re: Version 0.8.6 (Stable)

2012-08-07 Thread Isaac Schlueter
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Bry brandon.add...@gmail.com wrote: If the binary package is an experimental feature, why was it introduced in an even numbered release (stable)? Good question! This is not really a feature of node itself, but just a feature of the build process. We've