I'll pull the trigger at Friday the 20th, if there is no opposition (and
there was no opposition so far).
Adding devel into the loop for wider audience.
Vít
Dne 11.5.2016 v 10:33 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
Hi all,
I am thinking about retiring therubyracer from Fedora. Please let me
explain.
It was always pain to have therubyracer in Fedora. First issue was to
get it working with system v8. We did that, but later, there were
issues with compatibility after v8 updates. Later, upstream split the
v8 from therubyrace into separate libv8 (!!!) rubygem, which made the
situation even worse, since I can't imagine to have
rubyge-libv8-4.5.95.5 which will use on the background different
version of system v8. This kept us with old version of therubyracer
and old version of v8. Recently, after introduction of gcc 6.x, there
were some issues with compilation of v8 and hence therubyracer was not
working. Now, Spot updated system v8 without asking into some recent
version, which is not compatible with our version of therubyracer [1]
and moreover, therubyracer upstream seems to be stalled (there is no
activity since September 2015 as far as I can say).
We introduced therubyracer in the times, when NodeJS had not been
available in Fedora yet, when now it seems NodeJS is in Fedora and
does not go away any time soon.
Upcoming version of RHSCL are going to use NodeJS in place of
therubyracer as well.
All this means, that we should update all rubygems that needs some JS
engine to depends on NodeJS instead of therubyracer and retire
therubyracer.
Any thoughts?
Vít
[1]
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/koschei/package/rubygem-therubyracer
-------- Přeposlaná zpráva --------
Předmět: Broken dependencies: rubygem-therubyracer
Datum: Tue, 10 May 2016 12:37:21 +0000 (UTC)
Od: buildsys(a)fedoraproject.org
Komu: rubygem-therubyracer-owner(a)fedoraproject.org
rubygem-therubyracer has broken dependencies in the rawhide tree:
On x86_64:
rubygem-therubyracer-0.11.0-13.fc24.x86_64 requires libv8.so.3()(64bit)
On i386:
rubygem-therubyracer-0.11.0-13.fc24.i686 requires libv8.so.3
On armhfp:
rubygem-therubyracer-0.11.0-13.fc24.armv7hl requires libv8.so.3
rubygem-therubyracer-0.11.0-13.fc24.armv7hl requires v8
Please resolve this as soon as possible.
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