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@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +1. The latest release notes for SpiderMonkey can be found at: + + https://developer.mozilla.org/En/SpiderMonkey/1.8.5 + + +2. js/jsd contains code for debugging support for the JavaScript engine in js/src. + + +Packaging Notes +--------------- +This release is based on revision 5f8f494a4c29 of https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-2.0, with +a few trivial changes applied to improve the manageability of the standalone-release. In addition +to running autoconf 2.13 before bundling the release, the changes in the patches directory were +applied. + +This standalone release introduces a new, experimental, naming convention for the SpiderMonkey +shared library. This naming convention will not be rolled back into the mainline Mozilla source +tree, however the relevant patches are included with this distribution. + +Note: Please copy wes@page.ca on bugs related to packaging this standalone release. + +Linux and non-Mac OS X Unices +----------------------------- +Previous releases and the master source repositories build a shared library named libmozjs.so. In +an effort to make version identification easier for embedders and OS distribution maintainers, this +standalone release builds libmozjs185.so.1.0.0 (.dylib.1.0.0 on Mac OS X). + +libmozjs185 indicates that this is the SpiderMonkey library which implements JavaScript 1.8.5. The +1.0.0 suffix is of the form major.minor.micro revision. While it is unlikely that more than one +official source release for a given version of JavaScript will be published, it has happened in the +past (e.g JS 1.4-1), and we want to provide clear direction in case there is a compelling need: + +* a change in major revision number indicates a change which is ABI and API incompatible with the + previous release, + +* a change in minor revision number indicates a change which is ABI incompatible, but API + compatible with the previous release, + +* a change in micro revision number indicates a change which is both ABI and API compatible with + the previous release. + +A symbolic link will be provided linking libmoz185.js.so to this library, along with +libmoz185.js.so.1.0 when building the install target. + +Most embeddings building on Unix or Linux should link against libmozjs185.so.1.0. + +The static library has been renamed, from libjs_static.a to libmozjs185-1.0.a. + +Mac OS X +-------- +The versioning rules and symbolic links are the same as for the other flavours of Unix, but the +library name is now libmozjs185.1.0.0.dylib. + +Most embeddings building on Mac OS X should link against libmozjs185.1.0.dylib. + +Microsoft Windows +----------------- +The versioning rules are the same as for Unix, but the the library name is now +libmozjs185-1.0.dll. Symbolic links will not be created. |