Re: New Module Proposal. libseed

[Havoc Pennington <hp pobox com>]

Hi,

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jason D. Clinton <me jasonclinton com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Xan Lopez <xan gnome org> wrote:
>> I just want to point out that if the gnome-shell developers have any
>> intention or desire of using Seed in the future this whole "we need
>> both engines" debate is a bit pointless, since in theory there
>> wouldn't be any module using gjs in GNOME, and thus moving forward
>> with Seed would be the only sane choice IMHO. So I think their input
>> would be quite valuable here.
>
> I was a fly-on-the-wall to such a discussion between Robert and Owen
> some months ago and it seemed then that mostly everyone working on G-S
> didn't much have any opinion on the matter except for Havoc
> Pennington. If I recall correctly, whatever he is doing at his
> start-up depends on the features of JS 1.6/1.7 which can only
> currently be exposed in GJS.
>
> I have CC'd him. Perhaps he can elaborate.

I'm not really sure what you're asking about here. The reason we're
using spidermonkey is basically that we're using gecko rather than
webkit.

We have a fair bit of code that's used both inside xulrunner, and
standalone. For example the dbus bindings are used to communicate
between xulrunner and other gjs apps.

I do think "let" is near-essential to make JavaScript reasonable, so
someone really ought to add it to webkit before writing too much more
code. ;-)

Havoc