Deltachat-desktop: Electron needs to be based on node >= v10.7.0 (can get away with v10.6.0)

[ralphtheninja]

Just creating an issue here so we can follow up progress. See https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/14247

So, we need node v10.7.0 to support both:

• napi_create_threadsafe_function()
• napi_create_bigint_int64().

We can tweak the c-code to temporarily get rid of napi_create_bigint_int64(), but we need the threads. If we do this we can use v10.6.0.

I checked the electron repo (with help of @mafintosh) and current master is pinning node on v10.2.0 which doesn't help us right now. _But_ in the electron/node fork there's a branch named electron-node-v10.6.0.

cc @karissa @r10s @Jikstra

_If_ we can check out that branch and build electron ourselves based on that branch we should be good to at least develop, which will buy us some time.

[ralphtheninja]

Another alternative is to temporarily get rid of both napi_create_* functions and implement a polling mechanism, since we won't be able to callback into js land via the event handler.

[ralphtheninja]

Using temporary solution for now. Basically just commented out code in deltachat-node to make it compile, so some stuff is broken for now. More precisely:

• we can't do events since the event handler function is never called
• we can't get a big int file size

[ralphtheninja]

We had to poll configured state for now https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-node/commit/9a7c1a8fc5162c4d7e8a0e8610af0ed53e106da1

[Jikstra]

If we can check out that branch and build electron ourselves based on that branch we should be good to at least develop, which will buy us some time.

I think this should be fine for the moment, don't know about the electron release cycle, but i guess they will update their node version soon? Does anybody know more about it? If they upgrade to a compatible node version in the next 2 months, i think it should be fine to rely on a development branch until then.

PS: Will check out the other things when i'm back, i'm on vacation for the next 5 days. See you, have a good time :)

[ralphtheninja]

We're aware of the problem and a polling mechanism is in place until electron has matured. Closing.