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List:       openbsd-ports
Subject:    Re: Removal of www/ruby-rails and dependencies
From:       Jeremy Evans <jeremy () openbsd ! org>
Date:       2013-01-11 23:12:26
Message-ID: 20130111231226.GA15692 () jeremyevans ! local
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On 01/11 11:20, Jeremy Evans wrote:
> I'd like to remove www/ruby-rails and dependencies from the ports tree.
> These ports haven't been maintained and have been subject to numerous
> security issues over the past couple years (including a very critical
> one that made the news this week).  I don't think it makes sense for us
> to maintain ports for these ruby gems as:
> 
> 1) All of the ports are pure ruby gems, so they don't need to be
> recompiled when the system updates.
> 
> 2) None of the ports requires patching to run on OpenBSD.
> 
> 3) There is very little benefit to having them as ports, since
> installing them via "gem install" has basically the same effect.
> 
> Rails 3.0 is no longer supported by the Rails team, and updating
> Rails requires the addition of numerous dependencies and in general
> a lot of churn in the ports system.
> 
> The only non-rails ports that depend on the rails-ports are
> databases/ruby-couch_potato and devel/ruby-paper_trail, both of
> which satisfy criteria 1-3.
> 
> textproc/ruby-haml also depends on rails, but only for regress. It's
> out of date and I have a patch that brings it up to date and
> removes the regress parts that depend on rails.
> 
> These are the ports I would like to remove:
> 
> databases/ruby-activerecord
> databases/ruby-arel
> databases/ruby-couch_potato
> devel/ruby-actionpack
> devel/ruby-activemodel
> devel/ruby-activesupport
> devel/ruby-hike
> devel/ruby-i18n
> devel/ruby-paper_trail
> devel/ruby-sprockets
> devel/ruby-tzinfo
> mail/ruby-actionmailer
> sysutils/ruby-thor
> textproc/ruby-erubis
> www/ruby-activeresource
> www/ruby-rack-cache
> www/ruby-rack-mount
> www/ruby-rack-ssl
> www/ruby-rails
> www/ruby-railties
> 
> I will be preparing and testing a removal diff for these ports.  If
> you have any objections to these ports being removed, please speak
> up.

Attached is a tested gzipped diff for the removal, I'll probably be
committing it next week unless I hear objections.  I'm not removing
the devel/ruby-i18n port as that is a dependency of mail/ruby-mail.

Thanks,
Jeremy


["rails.diff.gz" (application/x-gunzip)]

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