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Date:      Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:19:10 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 2ddcf036d4ab - main - sysutils/polkit: use spidermonkey 91
Message-ID:  <YriVDg5G%2BS5jfud3@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <YrgpDO%2BBzSu85%2Btz@elch.exwg.net>
References:  <202206252047.25PKl3gp040071@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <Yrf3TbP28wqHhpzq@FreeBSD.org> <8881AA58-43F7-4445-B861-29A2D393203B@FreeBSD.org> <YrgpDO%2BBzSu85%2Btz@elch.exwg.net>

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 11:38:20AM +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## Baptiste Daroussin (bapt@FreeBSD.org):
> ...
> > >>  Incorporate a patch from upstream which allows to move from
> > >>  spidermonkey 78 to spidermonkey91
> > >
> > > What for?
> > 
> > To avoid most desktops to end up with 2 spidermonkey
> 
> Also, spidermonkey is firefox' JS engine, and firefox 78 is EOL for
> nearly 9 months

spidermonkey78 is still wanted* by current www/elinks which I've been
working on recently, hence I asked.  Admittedly, this should've been
probably explained in the commit log.

> which is a medium-sized eternity, as far as browsers are concerned.

OTOH, browser != standalone JS engine.

./danfe

*) https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264700



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