Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Drop of the V8 package

On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 05:28:13PM +0200, Raymond Wooninck wrote:

On Sunday 07 September 2014 15:53, Yamaban wrote:

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On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 15:40, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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On Sunday 2014-09-07 15:28, Raymond Wooninck wrote:

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I would like to propose to drop the V8 Javascript package from Factory. As far as I know there is no other package using V8 standalone. Chromium and NodeJS are both utilizing the in-source V8 package and has no dependencies on this.

Would it be possible to make those two use the external V8? (Following "No Bundled Libraries/Programs" 'guideline')

Sadly the "working" versions of the in-source V8 differ.

You would have to bundle NodeJS and Chromium and V8 builds to successful enable a working external V8, with no guaranty of fully functional NodeJS.

In view of the Chromium update cycle, and view of NodeJS in server usage, this is NOT a good way to make friends with the NodeJS users.

In the past we had this situation and I had to do a lot of tricks in order to get a working situation with Chromium and V8 as separate packages. I know that the guidelines are not to use the bundled libraries, but if I would follow that guideline to the letter than there wouldn't be any Chromium package. I believe the current situation is that half of the required libraries are in-source and the rest is taken from the system. Trying to utilize all libraries from system delivers build errors or worse a non working binary.

In the v8 case I think its best to let nodejs and chromium have their own. And so I am for dropping the v8 package itself. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org