From: Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com>
To: pgsql-pkg-yum@lists.postgresql.org
Cc: Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnd=FCz?= <devrim@gunduz.org>,
 Alexandru Lazarev <alexandru.lazarev@gmail.com>,
 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: 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/)
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:30:51 +0200
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On Friday, August 3, 2018 8:08:55 AM CEST Devrim G=FCnd=FCz 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