I agree with you. +1.
Jun
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondruch(a)redhat.com>
> To: ruby-sig(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 10:33:15 AM
> Subject: Is it time to retire rubygem-therubyracer?
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> Hi all,
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> I am thinking about retiring therubyracer from Fedora. Please let me explain.
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> 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.
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> All this means, that we should update all rubygems that needs some JS engine
> to depends on NodeJS instead of therubyracer and retire therubyracer.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Vít
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> [1]
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/koschei/package/rubygem-therubyracer
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> -------- Přeposlaná zpráva --------
> 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.
>
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