[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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