etsy/statsd — Issue #54: Need to know which node.js version to target/maintain compatibility with
Author: wickedchicken
Created: 2012-01-19 22:30:24+00:00
State: open

[We](https://github.com/librato/statsd/)'re developing some patches and features for statsd and would like to know what version of node to target. The driver of this is consideration of using a syslog package which only works on 0.6.x or above.

What version of node.js is Etsy looking to develop for, or has concerns in maintaining compatibility for? We don't want to develop 0.6.x-only features if backwards compatibility to 0.5.x or even below is a concern. On the other hand, if 0.5.x isn't a concern than many new packages or features are at our disposal.

Are the majority of statsd users on 0.6.x or otherwise? We'd appreciate both Etsy and community feedback on this. Note that our fork has a [package.json](https://github.com/librato/statsd/blob/master/package.json) which specifies 0.6.1. An official `package.json` would programmatically solve this.