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0e1f616
(Get the code!)
(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.