#1092912 quickjs: somewhat dead upstream, switch to quickjs-ng ?

Package:
src:quickjs
Source:
src:quickjs
Submitter:
Jérémy Lal
Date:
2025-01-17 13:21:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1092912#5
Date:
2025-01-13 10:41:11 UTC
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Hi,

it seems that https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs
is leading the dev of that project now.

A list of differences with the original project:
https://quickjs-ng.github.io/quickjs/diff

Also, they do release versions (0.8.0 is out).

Considering the huge community built upon quickjs-ng,
and the small set of reverse-deps (edbrowse),
I think it makes more sense to change upstream and add an
epoch to the version.

Jérémy
#1092912#10
Date:
2025-01-17 11:23:23 UTC
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Le jeu. 16 janv. 2025 à 19:20, Sebastian Humenda <shumenda@gmx.de> a écrit :


I've pushed a Draft PR to edbrowse.

I propose to maintain quickjs. I'm going to use it with nginx's njs.
It makes sense to me to change its team maintenance to
pkg-javascript-devel, or even simply to debian group.

Jérémy
#1092912#15
Date:
2025-01-17 12:47:47 UTC
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Hi

Jérémy Lal schrieb am 17.01.2025, 12:23 +0100:

I'll take a look.

I'd like to stay uploader. I'd follow your suggestion, pkg-javascript sounds
reasonable, but I won't be able to follow the team's development along.
What steps are required from my side?

Cheers
Sebastian
#1092912#20
Date:
2025-01-17 13:17:33 UTC
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Le ven. 17 janv. 2025 à 13:47, Sebastian Humenda <shumenda@gmx.de> a écrit :

I've built edbrowse with quickjs-ng, and opened a web page with it. However
I don't know how to test the js part.


Ok

It's okay to not subscribe to pkg-javascript-devel.

What steps are required from my side?

I have granted you access as a maintainer to
https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/quickjs-ng
You can review the changes I made there (I may have missed some issues).
You just need to use that repository.

I noticed that quickjs-ng is not yet usable as a shared library.
https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs/issues/675
gives hope, though.

Jérémy