Bug#550723: ITP: gjs -- Mozilla-based javascript bindings for the GNOME platform

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:11:34AM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <gustavo.noronha@collabora.co.uk>
> 
> 
> * Package name    : gjs
>   Version         : 0.2
>   Upstream Author : Litl
> * URL             : http://live.gnome.org/Gjs
> * License         : MIT, with parts triple licensed under: GPL2+, LGPL2+, MPL1.1
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : Mozilla-based javascript bindings for the GNOME platform
> 
> Gjs is a Javascript binding for GNOME, that allows you to use all of
> GNOME's platform libraries using the Javascript language. It's mainly
> based on the Mozilla javascript engine and the GObject introspection
> framework.

Please tell me this can build against a system library.

PS: why spidermonkey ? It looks a strange choice when most gnome
applications switched away from gecko and now use webkit...

Mike