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
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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.