On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:23, Mads Sig Ager <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does it mean that stable V8 is one that ships with stable Chromium and so > on > > (just checking)? > > Yes, at this point I think that is the best way to think of it. Thanks! For now that's fine for me. It may be useful to post that information somewhere on the V8 project page though. > I agree that we should make it easy to package and distribute V8. I > will ask to have the version number included in Chromium release notes > for a start. > Thanks again, that would be really appreciated. Technically it's not adding information, but just makes things easier. > As another data point (not sure how useful it is to you), we tag > versions so you can track them here: > > svn ls http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/tags > > There have been a couple of glitches where we forgot to tag a version > but we will be more careful going forward. Yeah, those tags are a requirement for any separate v8 package, and they are very useful. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 14:24, Erik Corry <[email protected]> wrote: > 15. nov. 2010 09.03 skrev Paweł Hajdan, Jr. <[email protected]>: > > Currently it's non-trivial to determine the version of V8 used for any > given > > version of Chromium (one has to either download and run the browser to > see > > You can see it here: > > http://src.chromium.org/svn/releases/5.0.375.89/DEPS > > obviously you substitute the version number you are interested in. > I know. I have mentioned this way as inconvenient, because then I still need to look up that revision number in v8 repo to extract the version number. > Because of the fragile base class problem it is difficult to share a > version of V8 between several packages. Node.js is always bundled > with V8 and think that is one of the reasons. Note that Linux distributions can and do handle such dependency problems. Moreover, most of the points still apply: maintainer of package like node.js would probably appreciate release notifications and security announcements. -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
