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OSSP js - Mozilla JavaScript Engine |
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Version 1.6.20070208 (08-Feb-2007) |
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ABSTRACT |
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OSSP js is a stand-alone distribution of the JavaScript (JS) |
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programming language reference implementation from Mozilla -- aka |
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"JSRef" or "SpiderMonkey". This distribution provides a smart, |
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stand-alone and portable distribution of Mozilla JavaScript through a |
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build environment based on GNU autoconf, GNU libtool and GNU shtool, |
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including support for easy JavaScript build-time feature set selection |
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(ECMA-3, JS-1.5, JS-1.6), optional CLI line editing support, optional |
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"stdio" based File object support and JS/Perl bindings. Additionally, |
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the C API in "libjs" contains both the JavaScript engine and the |
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required Sun math library ("fdlibm") and with all internal symbols |
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carefully protected under the "js" namespace. Finally, a js-config(1) |
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utility and a pkg-config(1) specification is provided to allow |
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applications to easily build with the JavaScript C API. |
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JUSTIFICATION |
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OSSP js was created because for OSSP and similar pedantic C coding |
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projects a smart, stand-alone, portable, clean, powerful and |
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robust scripting language engine is required. JavaScript is a |
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great programming language and Mozilla JavaScript "SpiderMonkey" |
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definitely is an acceptable clean, powerful and robust implementation. |
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Unfortunately there is just a stand-alone distribution released from |
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time to time by Mozilla and it is far away from really being smart, |
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stand-alone and portable. At least for OSSP it was not acceptable |
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having to tell the community that for small and stand-alone C |
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components like the OSSP components they either have to install the |
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great but large Mozilla Firefox application (where Mozilla JavaScript |
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is included) or have to fiddle around theirself with an older |
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stand-alone JavaScript distribution and its weak build environment. |
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OSSP js combines the best from two worlds: the 1:1 repackaged |
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JavaScript code base from Mozilla and the usual amount of GNU |
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autoconf, GNU libtool and GNU shtool wrappers as always used by OSSP. |
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Additionally, stand-alone ("stdio" instead of NSPR based) File object |
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support was required. |
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VERSIONING |
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The version of OSSP js is M.N.YYYYMMDD where M.N is the JavaScript |
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branch and YYYYMMDD is the date where the JavaScript code was |
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extracted from the Mozilla CVS repository. |
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COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE |
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Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Mozilla <http://www.mozilla.org/> |
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This file is part of OSSP js, a repackaging of the Mozilla JavaScript |
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reference implementation, which can found at http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/js/ |
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The content of this distribution is licensed under the Mozilla |
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Public License (MPL) 1.1 (see http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/) or |
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alternatively the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 (see |
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) or the GNU Lesser General Public |
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License (LGPL) 2.1 (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html). |
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HOME |
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The latest release can be found on |
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o http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/js/ |
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o ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/js/ |
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