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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] does v8 shared library make sense with current upstream approach?
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:20:59
Message-Id: CAKmKYaBPfFpq_9531jJtv1+ptunuN18s=0ttkeKZS4ASBVoUeA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] does v8 shared library make sense with current upstream approach? by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
2 > FYI - Spidermonkey is in the exact same situation -- upstream develops
3 > with the expectation that projects will embed the code or at best
4 > bundle the lib. They also completely break API with every major
5 > version bump (ie, every 6 weeks). Fortunately they accepted patches
6 > that support installing multiple versions concurrently, and so I've
7 > started slotting it in the tree.
8
9 On the other hand, I'm assuming non-core Mozilla projects and external
10 projects rely only on ESR releases of Spidermonkey, such that the API
11 only changes every 30 weeks or so?
12
13 Cheers,
14
15 Dirkjan