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

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.

[1] https://github.com/plv8/plv8/issues/281

Pavel