[OE-core] js 185 -> js186_1.0.0

[Saul Wold]

On 04/10/2012 09:02 AM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> Thank you very much for this clarification.
>
> @Saul, about upgrading js. This upgrade will break web, web-webkit and
> maybe more. How do you want to solve this issue? I compiled js180.
>
What kind of breakage?

If they need rebuilds then we bump PR to force that, but if it's API 
kind of breakage, then we need to understand that and if they are fixes 
for those update them also.

Sau!


> @g
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 18:22, Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan
> <jin at mediatomb.cc> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:14:58PM +0300, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>      > Have a problem while updating js to version 185. This version
>     renames the
>      > library in libmozjs185. What to do in order to avoid breaking
>     packages which
>      > need libjs? Another interesting thing is that js is now called
>     js185_1.0.0
>      > which seems to be actually another package / implementation? I
>     will try to test
>      > this using symlinks while compiling web package.
>
>     JS 1.8.5 is not backwards compatible! This is the reason why they
>     renamed the
>     libs, you can not link older software against JS 1.8.5 without
>     adaptions, the
>     new version has a new API.
>
>     Kind regards,
>     Jin
>
>
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