Bruce Dubbs wrote: > As I go through the packages in the book, I've looked upstream at > spidermonkey. There appear to be two versions: > > js185-1.0.0.tar.gz 31-Mar-2011 > mozjs17.0.0.tar.gz 25-Mar-2013 > > We are using the older version. I do not see any references to this > elsewhere in the book. > > What I find about the newer version is: > > "SpiderMonkey 17 is the JavaScript engine that shipped in Firefox 17." > > "SpiderMonkey 17 is not binary-compatible with previous releases, nor is > it source-code compatible. Many JSAPI types, functions, and callback > signatures have changed, though most of them still have the same names > and do the same things. Applications will need significant changes, but > most of those changes will be detected by the C/C++ compiler, so they > are easy to detect and updating the code is a fairly straightforward job." > > My question is whether we need the later version or the earlier version? > Both? Neither? > > Ken, you added spidermonkey in Jan 2012. Can you give some background?
Oh, I see now. It's needed indirectly for Gnome applications (polkit and gjs). I was confused because there are capital letters in the id. It looks like a mistake to try to do something with mozjs17. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
