Comment 3 for bug 644642

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Jeff Johnson (n3npq) wrote :

The gist of the missing comment ... continued ...

mongo is happy with the Google V8 JS engine (I have yet to see other usages).

The Apple JS offering I have never seen on linux.

There's lots of interesting applications with "server side JS" _BUT_
they are all grabbing some copy of -ljs and diverging. Proper -ljs
packaging MUST start with
    1) assumption of multiple libraries installed on seperate paths.
    2) additional naming because Mozilla (at least) isn't bothering
    with the usual soname API/ABI conventions.
    3) splitting out the internalized goop (like pcre in mongo, and -lffi in Mozilla)
    so that the packaging starts to be properly engineered.