Alaveteli upgrades and dependency support
Laurent Savaëte
Hi all (this is probably
mostly questions to mySociety),
I'm in a middle of
upgrading alaveteli on madada.fr to the latest version (from
0.38.1.0), and this has turned into a bit of a multiday
dependency hell marathon :)
We're on ubuntu 18.04. While upgrading to alaveteli 0.39.0.0 (I'm doing things step by step), I hit https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/issues/203 and support being dropped for phusion passenger on 18.04 (apparently in part because ruby 2.5 is EOL now).
The answer to the first
issue (by Gareth on github) was apparently to upgrade ubuntu
to 20.04 (and the same applies to the second issue above).
Basically, right now, ubuntu 18.04 is falling apart because a
number of dependencies are moving away from it (at least
that's my understanding).
At the same time, I see
that support by alaveteli for ubuntu 20.04 is only going to be
added in 0.40
(https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/6347). So I
find myself wondering if upgrading to 20.04 is going to break
something for us (I'm testing on a staging server first, but
still).
Am I doing something wrong (besides being late on catching up with the latest version of alaveteli)? Right now, it looks like there is no clear upgrade path to 0.39.1.7.
Should I just upgrade straight to the latest alaveteli?
Extra question: which
version of ruby do you recommend using? We're on 2.5 now, but
it appears to already be EOL (since march), so I suppose I
can/should upgrade to 2.6? Can I hop over to 2.7, considering
that support for it will be added in 0.40 or are these
non-backwards compatible?
Also, I saw that our current postgresql (9.6) will receive its final update next week (Nov 11, according to https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/) which I guess means it's reaching EOL as well. Is it safe to upgrade to a newer version right now? Is there a recommended one for alaveteli?
sorry for the dumpster load of questions!
Laurent for madada.fr
