[Buildroot] Ruby support in Buildroot
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Sep 29 18:28:17 UTC 2020
>>>>> "François" == François Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org> writes:
> Le sam. 29 août 2020 à 10:14, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> a
> écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Our ruby package could use some love. We have no DEVELOPERS entry for
>> it, and the package has only seen small (security) fixes since 2017 or
>> so:
>>
>> https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/log/package/ruby
>>
>> We are currently using ruby 2.4.x, which has been EOL since April:
>>
>> https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/04/05/support-of-ruby-2-4-has-ended/
>>
>> I personally do not have the time or interest to update and maintain
>> ruby, so unless someone steps up to support it I think the best solution
>> is to drop the package before 2021.02.
>>
>> Anyone interested in helping support ruby?
> we need at least host-ruby, because host-ruby is a dependency for WebKit :
> package/qt5/qt5webkit/qt5webkit.mk:11: host-bison host-flex host-gperf
> host-python host-ruby \
> package/webkitgtk/webkitgtk.mk:15:WEBKITGTK_DEPENDENCIES = host-ruby
> host-python host-gperf \
> package/wpewebkit/wpewebkit.mk:15:WPEWEBKIT_DEPENDENCIES = host-gperf
> host-python host-ruby \
Argh, indeed :/ I hadn't noticed that. Adrian, what is ruby used for?
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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