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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On March 10, 2010, Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:47:41AM +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > launchpad-developer-dependencies depends on spidermonkey-bin. This
> > package has been removed from lucid.
> > 
> > It provided one binary, smjs, a javascript shell. Grepping the
> > Launchpad source finds nothing using this command.
> > 
> > The relevant changelog entry in which this was added was:
> > 
> > launchpad-dependencies (0.35) intrepid; urgency=low
> > 
> >   * New deps: python-cherrypy3 and spidermonkey-bin
> >  
> >  -- Launchpad package maintainers <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  
> >     Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:35:06 -0300
> > 
> > Does anyone know why it was added, and if we may remove it?
> 
> Lazr-js uses it for jslint. It uses it indirectly, though. It uses
> /usr/bin/js, which points to /etc/alternatives/js, which points to
> /usr/bin/smjs.

Yep, jslint supports the rhino JS interpreter, but it's like 10x slower.

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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