Re: Exploring requiring Node.js to build Firefox

2018-01-24 Thread ISHIKAWA,chiaki
On 2018/01/24 22:42, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: On 24/01/2018 08:08, ISHIKAWA,chiaki wrote: The following issue related to npm package affects only a subset of mozilla developers: only the patch contributors who develop on their PCs that run Debian GNU/Linux. |mach bootstrap| to set up the deve

Re: Exploring requiring Node.js to build Firefox

2018-01-24 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Greg, thanks for starting this discussion. On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > Speaking as a maintainer of the Firefox build system, we try to be > conservative about the set of dependencies required to build Firefox from > source. We recognize that every required dependency

Re: Exploring requiring Node.js to build Firefox

2018-01-24 Thread ISHIKAWA,chiaki
On 2018/01/24 22:42, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: On 24/01/2018 08:08, ISHIKAWA,chiaki wrote: The following issue related to npm package affects only a subset of mozilla developers: only the patch contributors who develop on their PCs that run Debian GNU/Linux. |mach bootstrap| to set up the deve

Re: Exploring requiring Node.js to build Firefox

2018-01-24 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 24/01/2018 08:08, ISHIKAWA,chiaki wrote: > > The following issue related to npm package affects only a subset of mozilla > developers: only the patch contributors who develop on their PCs that run > Debian GNU/Linux. > > |mach bootstrap| to set up the development tools and niceties fails now u

Re: Exploring requiring Node.js to build Firefox

2018-01-24 Thread Dustin Mitchell
http://nvm.sh/ seems to be a great way to avoid distro-specific issues with node/npm installs, and to run exactly the expected version. Mach could likely use that or do something similar, installing node and npm in the objdir and using it from there. Dustin On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:08 AM, ISHIK