Arch Linux

I'd be happy do consider patches that allow apm and atom to build with newer nodejs, but upstream does not official support such new node versions yet and I was hitting a wall trying to get anything to build. The alternative was dropping atom & apm packages from the [community] repos altogether—which nearly happened. As of right now there is at least a combination that works again.

Now that the bump to Electron 11 is past it might be easier to work out how to patch for Nodejs 17+, but I don't have more time to sink into this right now. Again patches welcome!

If it would help anybody I think I could also do with with depends=('nodejs<17') so that older node-lts packages could be used as well. I only locked it to gallium because that was the newest one I could get to work. If being able to use old ones is useful let me know.

I just compiled the apm package using Node.js v17.8 in archlinux:base-devel Docker image using only this change: 'nodejs>=16'.
BTW, checking the GitHub repo for apm, only v12 and v14 is officially supported in the CI workflow.

@navarroaxel APM isn't a huge problem because I switched to 2.6.5 (which is missing the Git tag but seems to have been intended to be a release. Support for >=16 is in there.

However I can't say the same for atom itself. My attempts to build this worked fine for the cli package manager, but trying to compile atom using atm when built with a newer nodejs failed. That's the deal breaker right now as for as I know. Happy to be proven wrong or see patch that makes it work.

It's possible that whatever I was hung up on with new nodejs builds might have gotten fixed via other routes later in my overhaul. I'm running a couple more builds now to check that there actually still is a hold up....

No, this is still a problem; the atom build dies a hard death on nodejs > 16. apm builds fine, but atom doesn't follow suit. Since they need to match, we're stuck on this.

The culprit seems to be the fs-admin module, but I honestly don't have time to debug this right now. For my purposes using the LTS release isn't the end of the world and I have a 3 day old daughter to care for in my "spare" time.

Again I'm happy to accept patches if anybody can make apm+atom both build and cooperate.

By the way for anyone messing with this I left the nodejs=17 build of apm in [community-staging] for now, if you play with the atom build you can use `staging-x86_64-build` from the devtools package to test build it against that apm.

As a result of being discontinued upstream and so unmaintained that packaging was problematic Atom & APM have been dropped from Arch official packaging to the AUR.