Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:34:09 -0500 From: Daniel Rench <citric@cubicone.tmetic.com> To: dsh <daniel.haischt@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: spidermonkey-1.7.0 Message-ID: <4E448311.7040704@cubicone.tmetic.com> In-Reply-To: <CAC0wh9Yors2evWFAYpKpoBSKnJndn4SH7dOo-h7XJ82NEFV%2B%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAC0wh9Yors2evWFAYpKpoBSKnJndn4SH7dOo-h7XJ82NEFV%2B%2BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/11/11 9:39 AM, dsh wrote: > Hi, > > I intend to create an Apache Tuscany (native) port for FreeBSD. Apache > Tuscany uses the newly introduced JSON API which is available in > Spidermonkey libmozjs 1.8.5 [1]. Would it be possible to upgrade the > existing SpiderMonkey 1.7.0 port or would it make more sense to > introduce an additional spidermonkey185 port that would exist in > parallel? I would rather see lang/spidermonkey upgraded to 1.8.x rather than have multiple versioned ports. There are only a handful of ports that have spidermonkey as a dependency, so if an upgrade breaks any of them, we give those maintainers a heads up before committing. > I already started creating the port descriptor files for an additional > spidermonkey185 port but I am stuck right now at a point where the > compiler bails out because it doesn't find a header file that would be > found if compiling SpiderMonkey 1.8.5 standalone on FreeBSD without > using the ports infrastructure. I would appreciate some guidance on > the above question and on the actual port I created so far if you > would say it does make sense to go ahead with an additional > spidermonkey185 port instead of updating the existing one. Do you have your port-in-progress up anywhere public? Several weeks ago I started my own attempt at upgrading the port to 1.8.5. I just pushed this incomplete upgrade to github at https://github.com/drench/FreeBSD-spidermonkey/tree/js185 . If you're a github user you can fork my version and contribute from there if you like. > [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SpiderMonkey > > Cheers > Daniel
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