Re: gnome-spidermonkey?

[Frederic Crozat <fred crozat net>]

2010/12/11 Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>:
> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 13:16 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>> Basically, I want us to be decoupled from this; there are conceptually
>> actually 4 layers.
>>
>> NSPR <- spidermonkey <- xulrunner <- firefox
>>
>> Where "<-" is depends on.  Right now at least Fedora ships like:
>>
>> NSPR <- (spidermonkey xulrunner firefox)
>>
>> Where () is "tightly coupled", meaning that gjs and gnome-shell are
>> tightly coupled to firefox.
>>
>> Having a separate xulrunner as a project hasn't really worked - it's a
>> *huge*, enormous codebase.  Spidermonkey on the other hand has always
>> nominally supported being built seprately; it has its own configure
>> script, etc.
>
> Probably better way would be to work on parallel installation of
> xulrunner and/or spidermonkey then forking. I.e. if needed there should
> be possible to install, for example, xulrunner 2.0 and xulrunner 2.1 at
> the same time.

This is already possible for xulrunner in most distributions.

-- 
Frederic Crozat