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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