Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS now both have usable nodejs packages.
When possible, we will use those. In older distros, we will still
install packages from nodesource. The nodesource version has been
updated to v10.
b/150687293
Change-Id: I25f14fbc1751aea1ac1d51cb38f8736d34a601e6
This updates our build requirements to NodeJS v8+ and NPM v5+, both
released in 2017.
This also clarifies our support for Python 3 (not well-documented
before) to the version we are using on Debian, v3.5.
Requiring NodeJS v8+ means our node tools (like our extern generator)
no longer need shims for compatibility. This allows us to drop the
"es6-shim" and "array-includes" modules.
In NPM v5+, the "prepublish" script has been deprecated, and replaced
with "prepublishOnly" (which is what we want) and "prepare" (the old
behavior we had to work around). This allows us to drop the
"in-publish" module.
Change-Id: Ied189c76a58fe981c12d41155b834f2d6ea73bbd
This adds a new script which should simplify the process of installing
prereqs on Debian and Ubuntu-based Linux distributions. This also
updates the required versions of NodeJS and Git.
Closes#1175
Change-Id: If298cc46650bfd0ebe726c8fa3184dd0d063bfaf
Joey Parrish