Re: gnome-spidermonkey?

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Frederic Crozat <fred crozat net> wrote:

> Except almost nobody ship spidermonkey that way (I used to package it
> separately years ago in Mandrake) but it didn't last long and there
> was very few (ie one or two) using it and no maintenance on it by
> upstream.

Actually we're discussing this upstream again very productively;
there's renewed interest in supporting embedders, and I'm in the
process of getting some patches in to help here.

> Forking spidermonkey would mean code duplication in distributions and
> moreover, library code would not be shared in memory between firefox
> and gjs (but I might be wrong on this).

True.

> Using xulrunner as a "basis", providing libmozjs.so isn't sufficient ?

No, because it couples gnome-shell to tightly to firefox basically.