I agree with you. +1. Jun
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondr...@redhat.com> > To: ruby-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 10:33:15 AM > Subject: Is it time to retire rubygem-therubyracer? > > > > 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: build...@fedoraproject.org > Komu: rubygem-therubyracer-ow...@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. > > _______________________________________________ > ruby-sig mailing list > ruby-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/ruby-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org > _______________________________________________ ruby-sig mailing list ruby-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/ruby-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org
