Re: git: 2ddcf036d4ab - main - sysutils/polkit: use spidermonkey 91

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 11:38:20AM +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## Baptiste Daroussin (bapt@FreeBSD.org):
> ...
> > >>  Incorporate a patch from upstream which allows to move from
> > >>  spidermonkey 78 to spidermonkey91
> > >
> > > What for?
> > 
> > To avoid most desktops to end up with 2 spidermonkey
> 
> 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.  Admittedly, this should've been
probably explained in the commit log.

> which is a medium-sized eternity, as far as browsers are concerned.

OTOH, browser != standalone JS engine.

./danfe

*) https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264700