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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1078:
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I don't remember bumping to a 1.8 requirement. AFAIK, it should still be
possible to build couchjs with 1.7 but I can't say that I've tried lately. The
wiki page at least still mentions 1.7 as the minimum dependency and some of the
platform specific instruction still use it. Granted its a wiki so its quite
possibly just out of date.
The biggest issue with moving past an official 1.7 dependency is that there's
no official release after 1.7. Once we bump past 1.7 we're either requiring
people to use the 1.8rc1 tarball or to yank a copy from the FF mercurial
repository. There's also the issue that after 1.7 we end up requiring people to
have a very specific version of autoconf (which is not the same as our main
depenency on autoconf, which means we require two versions of autoconf though
the old autoconf that spidermonkey uses generally has a specific package for it
which I've always found quite odd but never investigated).
I know that we've made it possible to link against a libmozjs provided by a
system package for xulrunner, but that doesn't seem like something we should
officially depend on.
So in the end, I would say that it is probably wrong. I'd have to go back and
try building against 1.7 to double check though.
> Port couchjs to newest libmozjs
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>
> Key: COUCHDB-1078
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1078
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: JavaScript View Server
> Affects Versions: 1.0.2
> Reporter: Chris Coulson
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: mozjs2.0.patch
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> In the libmozjs shipped with Firefox 4 / xulrunner 2.0, jsapi has changed a
> fair bit. It would be nice to add support to couchjs for the latest libmozjs
> so Linux distro's don't have to support old versions of it.
> I already have a WIP patch for this
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