Thanks both of you for the information. I'll pass the different source suggestion on to my team. Originally we didn't think about the release schedules, only looking at the feature differences page and not seeing anything we couldn't live without in Chromium.
- Joe On Saturday, October 20, 2012 7:57:02 AM UTC-7, kapouer wrote: > > I know i brought the subject of using a 3 numbers soname version, > but the version reported by v8 would stay the same with 4 numbers. > Also there is no libv8 package uploaded in debian/ubuntu that > implement this soname. > > Chromium is probably using its own bundled v8 copy here. > > J�r�my. > > On 20/10/2012 14:16, Jakob Kummerow wrote: > > There is no official V8 version 3.8.10. Maybe Ubuntu has done local > > modifications and taken the liberty to invent their own version > > numbers or something. The latest version of the 3.8 branch is > > 3.8.9.29. > > > > Regardless of this, please note that Chromium M18 is severely > > outdated (it has been unsupported for over 5 months already) and > > probably full of unfixed security issues. I *strongly* recommend not > > to use it for browsing the internet. Please do update to a current > > version (Chromium 22 is the current stable version). If Ubuntu > > doesn't provide up-to-date versions, either politely ping them, or > > help them, or choose another Chromium distributor (such as Google > > Chrome). > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Joe Millenbach > > <[email protected] <javascript:> <mailto:[email protected]<javascript:>>> > wrote: > > > > [Cross posting between Chromium and v8 as related to both] We're > > trying to compare shell and browser based JavaScript tests, but the > > current version of Chromium in our Ubuntu environments says it has a > > v8 engine of 3.8.10 in the "about:" page. Looking in SVN there isn't > > a tag with this version number. Earlier I noticed that the browser > > said it had 3.8.9.19, but SVN only listed 3.8.9 at the time too. I'd > > hoped they were the same, but now I'm not so sure. > > > > -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] <javascript:> > > <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>> > > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > > > > > > -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] <javascript:> > > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > > -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
