Re: New Module Proposal. libseed

[Robert Carr <carrr rpi edu>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> 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
>

Yes I can do this (and have been planning to) and put it in a branch,
but probably not for another week or so. The actual C patches are very
small...the biggest part is reviewing all the use of "let" statements,
and changing them...there should be no non-trivial changes though.