[bug#42639] [PATCH] bump Node to 14.6

[Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>]

Hey Formbi,


Formbi via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org> writes:

> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] bump node to 14.6

Sadly, recent node versions come bundled with generated code based on
the llhttp[1] project. These generated source files can be found in the
deps/llhttp/src directory of the 14.6 release, and the annoying thing is
that upstream uses typescript to generate these C files. See [2] for my
feeble attempt at having upstream take note of this issue to allow for
properly bootstrapping lltthp and subsequently recent versions of node.

There are some alternative typescript implementations that I
unsuccessfully have tried in the past in at least translating the
typescript used in llhttp to normal javascript, which we could then
interpret using our packaged version of node to build the C files that
would allow us to build newer versions of node. The ones I looked at in
some detail are:

- Sucrase [3] but it doesn't support all used typescript constructs
- swc [4] but it actually depends on the normal typescript compiler

I'm sorry I don't have better news to share either.  Perhaps some
guile-guru can drop down from their higher spheres of existence and
create a hacky interpreter that translates typescript to
extremely-ugly-yet-correct javascript to help us escape this quagmire.

- Jelle


[1] https://github.com/nodejs/llhttp
[2] https://github.com/nodejs/llhttp/issues/14
[3] https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase/issues/464
[4] https://github.com/swc-project/swc