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?

The Foreman is still using it. Although there are some plans to remove it:
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/11449
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/14809

Adding Dominic to CC.

-- 
Miroslav Suchy, RHCA
Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys
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