On Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:37:08 CET Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
On 2/26/22 02:21, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Friday, 25 February 2022 14:02:11 CET Neal Gompa wrote:
>> I think this is probably one of those things that would be worth
>> forming a SIG on. An Electron SIG could help with Electron and all
>> Electron-based applications that come into Fedora.
>
> That would be fine by me. The most obvious application would be Element
> (Matrix).
https://element.io/
How do you plan to rebuild all of the NPM dependencies? “Just use
what is in node_modules” runs into the problem that what is in
node_modules often isn’t actually source code. Yes, I know that most
other packagers are likely using this approach, but it doesn’t meet
Fedora’s “everything must be built from source” requirement.
With signal I replaced the binary node modules with source ones. I also make
sure that there are no shared libraries or prebuild .node file around.
Most of the time a `node-gyp rebuild` is what you need to rebuild the
binaries.
nodejs-signal-ringrtc was not that easy as it requires webrtc. This also uses
ffmpeg and I need a system ffmpeg for that. Also webrtc only offers a static
library. So you need to use that to then build ringrtc (rust) and node glue
code.
It took me a long long time to figure several things out as there is no
documentation how to cleanly build for distributions. I'm making it better in
small steps whenever I learn something.
Andreas