Hey, Mozilla released a SM 1.8.5 source distribution this morning [1]. We've been getting requests from various places to upgrade our couchjs to use this newer version for a couple weeks and now that its available, there's no better time to act.
As can be expected, this new SpiderMonkey has a fairly significant API change from what we've been using in couchjs. Up until now we've been able to get away with supporting 1.7 and the 1.8.0rc1 tarballs without much hassle. The new API makes this much more difficult. Chris C Coulson from Ubuntu has been working on a patch that'll allow us to work with 1.8.5 and (IIRC) should work with the 1.8.0rc1 but it includes some extra gnarly ifdef magic to make things work. So my question is what versions of SM should we support? I would probably vote to drop everything in favor of 1.8.5 and no longer support the older APIs. There is a possibility of just having two versions of couchjs that we choose at compile time. But from what I've heard and seen, we're basically not going to be able to have a single compile time ifdef decision on versions without some super screw code. Thoughts? [1] http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/
