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: 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-...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/ruby-...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
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