Any reason element-web's dependencies couldn't have nodejs-16 allowed?

[realkinetix]

I couldn't have a server on mine stuck below nodejs 16 LTS any longer, so I updated element-web's RDEPEND to:

<net-libs/nodejs-18

I haven't done a full emerge -e on element-web or anything, so there could be something else that would break. So far, so good, on this system of mine, though.

Anyhow, thanks of course for providing this repo and the element apps!

[TheJJ]

Hey! The reason is stated in the comment above that requirement:

# maybe nodejs version needs to be limited according to these compatibilities:
# https://github.com/node-gfx/node-canvas-prebuilt/releases
# https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/

element did depend on this node-canvas-prebuilt thingy, but apparently not any more. I've updated my node to v18 and updated element-web/desktop, and it works :)

so I think we can drop that version limiting, but when testing, i ran into discovering nodejs/node-gyp/issues/2750
let's see how deep we need to dig into this rabbit hole...

thanks for the hint!

[realkinetix]

Well, I hope that turns out OK. I only went as far as 16 as it's LTS.

[TheJJ]

Turns out it didn't so far - surprise! I've now fixed it so it does work with the latest nodejs version... by patching 3 layers of nested dependency fetching - see 3eb701f. Please check if it works for you, too.