Re: Bug#629622: ITP: jenkins-htmlunit-core-js -- Jenkins branch of the HtmlUnit Core JS Interpreter

[Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib@drazzib.com>]

Hi James,

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:58:52 +0100, James Page <james.page@canonical.com>
wrote:
[...]
>  This package contains the Jenkins branch of the HtmlUnit adaptation
>  of Mozilla Rhino Javascript engine for Java with supports HtmlUnit.
>  .
>  HtmlUnit Changes are documented by a diff (rhinoDiff.txt) contained
>  in the generated jar files.
>  This package is required to support packaging of jenkins and is one
>  of a number of branches that the jenkinsci project maintains.

So, JenkisCI is using a fork (jenkins-htmlunit-core-js) of the fork
(htmlunit-core-js [1])
of Rhino package... JenkisCI upstream seems a love code (and effort...)
duplication.

/with my rhino package maintainer hat/
Rhino is - now - an active project again (at least, they made a new
release on 2011-06-03 [2]).
You should try to convince JenkisCI team to merge back its changes [3]
(and htmlunit changes [4]) back into Rhino

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.htmlunit.devel/7915
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html
[3] https://github.com/jenkinsci/core-js/blob/master/rhinoDiff.txt
[4]
http://htmlunit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/htmlunit/trunk/core-js/rhinoDiff.txt?revision=6395&view=markup

Cheers,
-- 
Damien