Re: mozjs38 in Debian

Hello Jeremy,

Adding Debian-devel-games list.

2017-10-28 2:43 GMT+02:00 Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>:

mozjs38 is in Ubuntu because it was needed (briefly) for GNOME 3.24.
It's still in Ubuntu because cjs hasn't been ported to mozjs52 yet.

The packaging is at
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-gnome/mozjs38.git

Could 0ad use a distro mozjs38 if it were packaged in Debian?

I don't know.
As Vincent Cheng (0ad Debian maintainer) wrote in [2]:
" I'll also point out that 0ad applies some local patches on top of
whatever mozjs release they're using at the time [1]. My understanding
is that they've tried to have these patches applied upstream but were
rejected. "

Ideally, 0ad would switch to mozjs52 before Debian 10 "Buster" is released.

Ideally 0ad upstream should NOT embed mozjsXX.

The patch FixTracelogger.diff [3] used by 0ad to modify mozjs-38 is not a small patch.

I have no idea if 0ad can easily use mozjs52 (or another version) without patches.

Has anybody already tried to use an "unpatched" mozjs with 0ad?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bye

[1] http://sources.debian.net/src/0ad/0.0.21-2/libraries/source/spidermonkey/
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2017/10/msg00018.html

[3] http://sources.debian.net/src/0ad/0.0.21-2/libraries/source/spidermonkey/FixTracelogger.diff/

Dr. Ludovic Rousseau