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@fedoraproject.org
Komu: rubygem-therubyracer-owner@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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