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Randall Leeds commented on COUCHDB-1371:
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It's true: we have it and it works. However, it is significant testing burden
in support of something that was released years ago. I'd even pull for dropping
everything but 1.8.5 on versions of CouchDB that were released after 1.8.5 came
out, but welcome arguments against it. I'm making significant patches to this
stuff and it's less than fun to have to test it against three very similar
versions of SpiderMonkey.
The way I see it there is one good argument for keeping old support: users
building from source might have the dependency already.
Packagers don't suffer because they often don't update major versions of
CouchDB between releases anyway and Firefox drives them to get new
mozilla-central upstream sources periodically anyway. If we make good on all
the discussion we've had about packaging then we could be solving this for a
lot of users ourselves anyway. It feels silly for us to triple our testing
burden to support users that want to compile a shiny new release of CouchDB
with a three year old SpiderMonkey embedding. End rant.
> configure erroneously warns against using a new spidermonkey with old
> spidermonkeys
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> Key: COUCHDB-1371
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1371
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Randall Leeds
> Assignee: Randall Leeds
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.2, 1.3, 1.1.2
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> Attachments: 0001-fix-bad-configure-warning-on-old-SpiderMonkey.patch
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> Paul added the check for JSOPTION_ANONFUNFIX in 7ce9e103e, but js-1.7 doesn't
> have this constant so configure gives a warning.
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