Re: Who and How is responsible for released installations packagesand 3rd party packs? (e.g. onhttps://yum.postgresql.org/9.6/redhat/rhel-7.3-x86_64/)

On Fri, Aug  3, 2018 at 10:30:51AM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> On Friday, August 3, 2018 8:08:55 AM CEST Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 16:26 +0300, Alexandru Lazarev wrote:
> > > What about 3rd party libraries like plv8 - Who and How (based on which
> > > criteria, which versions) build RPM and upload them there?
> >
> > Latest versions of PL/v8 does not build on RHEL/Fedora anymore, at least from
> > the package build point of view.
> 
> Yes, packaging of plv8 is pretty complicated.  If one decided to ship RPM
> package with plv8, it would mean maintenance of whole v8 language - which
> is incredibly complicated (incompatible changes all the time, backporting
> security fixes, etc.).
> 
> That's the reason why plv8 (and even v8 runtime) becomes dropped from Linux
> distributions.

Uh, who is building PL/v8 currently, and for what operating systems?  No one?

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