Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson
This is my understanding of our conversation today: We talked today about Node Serial port. Francis is happy to have a branch in the repo and help maintain once there...
Starting to work on the port here https://github.com/mhdawson/node-serialport/tree/n-api. Have just started so have only done a small part of the conversion so far.
One note is that I saw a few tests failing before I started, notably those that required changing the baud rate. I commented those out and other than those 3-4...
I've not made as much progress as I'd like on this (just lack of time, its been a busy last few months for me), @joegoggins if you would like to...
@joegoggins thanks for the response. I do hope to get back to this soon and I'll keep this issue up to date so you can see where it is at...
Unfortunately, I never squeezed in time push it forward. If node-serialport uses prebuild then that discussion/PR will help when it comes time to build binaries for N-API versions.
@GazHank created https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/issues/430 so that the team is aware of the ask and we can see if anybody has some time to review/help.
@BridgeAR, @MylesBorins when this work was mentioned to me it was in the context of helping projects run test themselves (for example the Express project) which I think would be...
I agree we need to figure out how to let more people run this usefully. To be useful it needs to be green most of the time when people need/want...
+1 to skipping AIX if a module uses yarn until we can get some 7.1 machines in place.