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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] does v8 shared library make sense with current upstream approach?
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:16:03
Message-Id: 1380096978.6404.1.camel@i7
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] does v8 shared library make sense with current upstream approach? by "Paweł Hajdan
1 В Вт, 24/09/2013 в 11:46 -0700, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." пишет:
2 > On 9/22/13 5:24 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
3 > > "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
4 > >> "compiling with versions of v8 other than what is included is not
5 > >> currently supported."
6 > > ..
7 > >> For now V8 upstream gives no guarantees about API/ABI stability and
8 > >> actually breaks it very often
9 > >
10 > > I agree that it isn't worth the effort to try to offer V8 as a
11 > > library then.
12 >
13 > Perfect.
14
15 But could you comment on how hard it'll be to slot v8 shared library?
16 Keeping libraries bundled is a security nightmare.
17
18 --
19 Peter.

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