Bug#706713: ITP: plv8 -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL and JavaScript
On 03/05/2013 22:41, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/03/2013 10:18 PM, Jérémy Lal wrote:
>
>>> V8 is a high performance JavaScript engine written in C++. It is used
>>> in the web browser Chromium.
>>
>> The fact that it is used in mongodb might be a little more adequate here ?
>
> Yupp, probably. Description was pretty much copy&paste yet.
>
>>> PostgreSQL is an open source SQL database server.
>>> .
>>> This package provides a procedural language interface to JavaScript from
>>> PostgreSQL. Procedural languages are used to write functions
>>> which can be called in database queries.
>>
>> We will probably have to coordinate around the libv8 releases at some point.
>> Would you like to put this package in the pkg-javascript-devel team ?
>
> That, or pkg-postgresql. Not sure which matches better :)
> Coorindinating with v8 might be a reason for pkg-js.
>
> BTW, as you seem to be good with the whole js stuff: plv8 includes
> coffee-script.js and livescript.js, is there a sane way to generate
> these at build-time? coffee-script is packaged, but I do not see a
> single .js as shipped in plv8 currently.
Coffeescript is not my cup of tea, but
/usr/lib/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/coffee-script.js
Do you need it at build time or at run time ?
If it's at run time, you could Suggests the dependency on those two
meta-languages, because i suppose they are not the main feature of plv8.
Jérémy.
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