I pulled the trigger and retired rubygem-therubyracer. Please update
your packages to use NodeJS instead.
RIP
Vít
Dne 16.5.2016 v 10:13 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
I'll pull the trigger at Friday the 20th, if there is no opposition
(and there was no opposition so far).
Adding devel into the loop for wider audience.
Vít
Dne 11.5.2016 v 10:33 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
>
> 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: 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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