On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 13:04 -0300, Leo Historias wrote: > Thanks for your explanation,but why Node.JS?
Because Firefox upstream decided they want to transpile Javascript files during the build process instead of the development process. > Why don't we have it on ppc32? Because it's not been fully ported to 32-bit PowerPC. I started working on it and some others did, but it was never finished. As I said before, all these things require a lot of human resources, i.e manpower. > One alternative is to build either Firefox using nodejsc I have no idea what NodeJSC is. As I said, one could cross-transpile the JavaScript files for 32-bit PowerPC and other architectures without NodeJS support. But someone has to do the actual work and I cannot clone myself. > or use a version of Firefox that requires rust but not Node.JS We're using the Firefox version that is part of Debian. Maintaining a custom version is extremely time-consuming. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
