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Date:      Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:44:48 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
Cc:        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:  <A4564CEF-B5FB-4CC9-B717-B8E670FCB352@FreeBSD.org>
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Le 26 juin 2022 19:19:10 GMT+02:00, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd=2Eorg>=
 a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
>On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 11:38:20AM +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
>> ## Baptiste Daroussin (bapt@FreeBSD=2Eorg):
>> =2E=2E=2E
>> > >>  Incorporate a patch from upstream which allows to move from
>> > >>  spidermonkey 78 to spidermonkey91
>> > >
>> > > What for?
>> >=20
>> > To avoid most desktops to end up with 2 spidermonkey
>>=20
>> 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=2E  Admittedly, this should've been
>probably explained in the commit log=2E

I agree it should have been explained in the commit log=2E

About elinks, any plan to upgrade to the fork/continuation here: https://g=
ithub=2Ecom/rkd77/elinks/

From=20my testing it works way better than our current version and with quic=
kjs you can get pretty good results and no spidermonkey78=2E

>
>> which is a medium-sized eternity, as far as browsers are concerned=2E
>
>OTOH, browser !=3D standalone JS engine=2E
>
>=2E/danfe
>
>*) https://bugs=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/bugzilla/show_bug=2Ecgi?id=3D264700



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