Re: New Module Proposal. libseed

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:18, Sandy Armstrong
<sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net> wrote:
>> On 05/12/2009 08:01 PM, Robert Carr wrote:
>>>
>>> For 2.28, it may make sense to have both gjs and Seed as modules, and
>>> try and keep code somewhat compatible.
>>>
>>> It's still not entirely clear which JavaScript engine is going to end
>>> up being better long term, so we might not want to completely commit
>>> to one yet.
>>
>>
>> With that plan, it is -1 from me. 2 engines is one too many IMHO.
>
> We'll have two engines if Epiphany moves to webkit and gnome-shell
> sticks with gjs.
>
> If the only user of gjs in GNOME is gnome-shell, and the gnome-shell
> developers are happy with a move to Seed (have we heard from them on
> this yet?), then I am +1 for Seed's inclusion and gjs' exclusion.
>
> I agree with Hubert that sending mixed messages about browser/js
> engines is not a good idea.
>
I agree +1 for seed.

Robert,

Can you commit to put in the few days work to make a patch for
gnome-shell to use libseed? I think that makes it easy for the
gnome-shell developers to go to libseed

Jaap