(Apologies if this is bikeshedding or a repeat of previous discussion)
(In reply to comment #29)
Mike -- I named the library libmozjs185.so rather than libmozjs.so
specifically
because it doesn't work as a drop-in for any previously-released libmozjs.so
(not even close -- see the release notes).
Since we're deliberately changing the name, maybe libspidermonkey is a
better name? I agree that putting 185 in the name isn't good. When we
change to 1.9.0, would we have to change the SO name? That can't be
right.
Versioning the spidermonkey library based on the JavaScript version it
implements (1.8.5) doesn't make much sense to me; I prefer to think of this as
version 1.0.0 of the library which implements JavaScript 1.8.5. Trying to
connect solib versioning with language versioning has, at least in the past,
been completely and utterly futile.
I believe that the 1.8.5 numbering scheme is a pretty bad one, and is
only there because of history. Perhaps we should change it; maybe to the
Firefox version number or the Gecko one.
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