Nice summary. Having done a few,substantial webapps on other platforms but not RoR, I'm not sure how relevant my perspective is. All the same, I know that in *app deployment* I see value in bundling to isolate my apps for stability. Lockdown is the line of last defense against hyperactive upstream changes.
But I also think that Fedora have eloquently articulated the causes which impel them to resist bundling in packaged apps. Thanks for sharing that well reasoned link. Packages inevitably require maintenance, and it only gets more expensive the longer it goes. On Aug 3, 2012 10:36 AM, "Ken Dreyer" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > While we're at the packaging topic: I saw some posts on a Fedora mailing > > list that you're working on packaging Gitorious for Fedora, that would be > > really great! Any news? Need help? > > Nice, thanks for asking. I've broken out all the steps that must be > done [1]. There's a brief summary under "High Level Steps and Issues". > > I spent a couple of weeks packaging up all the requisite gems, but I > was working against EPEL 6, and my specs are not up to the latest Ruby > standards for Fedora packaging. I anticipate this is still going to be > about 50% of the work. > > I think the other 50% is going to be Gitorious itself. Here's the > big-ish items that are relevant to you as the upstream project: > > #1: I'm pretty sure the old Rails version under vendor/ is going to be > a blocker to getting Gitorious itself into Fedora [2]. Fedora 17 has > Rails 3.0, and Fedora 18 is going to have Rails 3.2. I see a couple of > branches in mainline ("rails-3.0" and "rails-3.1"), and there's the > bug report in redmine [3] but I'm not sure where else to look. I'm a > RoR newbie so I don't have a good feel for how much work this would > involve... my guess is that it's a lot :) > > #2: Another big "unknown" for me is Ruby 1.9.3 compatibility. I'm > hoping that the test suite is going to assist me here. I would really > like to get "rake test" to pass during the builds on all versions of > Fedora and EPEL 6. (It looks like there's one or two gems that are > Ruby 1.8-only, also, so I need to get familiar with those.) > > #3: Fedora has dropped ruby-net-ldap in favor of net-ldap. I don't yet > know how much work it would be to patch Gitorious to use the net-ldap > Gem. > > If there's anything else I should know about in terms of dependencies > (present or future plans) I'm very interested. > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ktdreyer/Gitorious > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries > [3] https://issues.gitorious.org/issues/3 > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
